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Browne's ability to communicate his feelings is clearly tainted by involvement with his personal tragedy. He is too caught up in his private world to see the need to generalize. So, although Browne stands out in a street scene on the cover of The Pretender, his songs betray that he is just another face in the crowd of would-be rock poets...
...Bernard Stein argues in his recent Penthouse article, "If You Like Richard Nixon, You'll Love Jimmy Carter," Carter's statements too often belie the facts. Though Carter now says he'd "rather die than betray" the trust of loyal black supporters, it was not very long ago that he maintained in Georgia he was a "redneck" candidate who could win "without a single black vote...
...York's Village Voice, Daniel Schorr suspected that he would never again appear as a CBS correspondent. Then came his eloquent defense of a reporter's First Amendment rights last month before the House ethics committee, which had demanded that he identify his source. "To betray a source would be to betray myself, my career and my life," he declared. "I cannot...
...documentary film, nor as fully digested as they should have been by any first-class dramatist. An even more serious flaw, however, is the fact that not a single character in The Front is surprising. The weak never startle with a momentary show of strength. The wicked never betray a flash of compassion. The heroes never convincingly falter in their convictions. They are simply not alive, and it is hard to care much what happens to them. Even the cleverly chosen New York locations somehow seem contrived. There is, in the end, something held back about The Front, some strange...
...released until they tell how they obtained secret grand jury testimony quoted in a 1975 story about local corruption, or until a judge becomes convinced they cannot be forced to talk. Before the four entered a county prison farm at Caruthers late last week, they vowed never to betray their sources. Said Editor Gruner: "We are defending one of our basic freedoms...