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...Premier Eisaku Sato will be his toughest. The Administration's overtures to Peking and the import surcharge both caught Sato by surprise, and they have soured the final months of Sato's exemplary political career. Ordinarily, Sato talks with Oriental indirection, but he is expected to be blunt in confronting Nixon with his suspicions that Henry Kissinger's master plan in the Pacific is for the U.S. to manage both Tokyo and Peking by playing the two off against each other...
What else could be done to blunt the protectionist appeal? One essential is a quick resolution of the international monetary crisis through upward revaluation of major foreign currencies and probably a formal devaluation of the dollar. More realistic currency values would tend to lower the world price of U.S.-made goods; as a necessary part of any monetary deal, the Administration should promise unequivocally to remove the 10% import surcharge. That solution would not mollify protectionists, but it would please some of their reluctant allies who are properly concerned about the startling deterioration in the U.S. trade balance. The Administration...
...past three years, a new kind of journalism review has sprung up in nearly a dozen U.S. cities. Unlike the well-documented, professorial C.J.R., the newcomers are blunt, angry and gossipy in their exposure of faults, real or imagined. Most are financially fragile, physically unprepossessing and dependent on volunteered talent. Execution has been uneven, but editors are beginning to wince as they read...
...Willard, as well as his first solo album California Bloodlines, the concreteness of Stewart's lyrics and the simple instrumentation keep any tinge of romanticism from Stewart's blunt descriptions. For example...
...ideas, pervert them, copyright them, and claim them as his own. (At one point we actually see Larry the Dwarf, disguised as Zappa, transcribing a tape of the band into a music notebook and then perverting it by pouring coffee all over the page and hitting it with a blunt object.) The band is afraid that Zappa is watching everything they are doing and that he will make them repeat it in the movie. Yet at other times they complain to the audience that he is in the background somewhere, directing them and making them say absurd things...