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...from 5½ hours to four without substantially altering its impact or scope-or for that matter, remedying its built-in weaknesses. Last week, on the eve of the new version's premiere at the New York Film Festival, Paramount Pictures announced that it would distribute the briefer movie nationwide...
...Government regulations and make them more understandable. Thus, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano must have been proud a few days back as he announced that his department-the Government's biggest spender-was starting a five-year campaign to make HEW's edicts briefer, simpler and fewer. He even gave the campaign a nice snappy title: Operation Common Sense. Great, but the HEW flacks handed reporters 43 pages of verbiage to explain how much sense Common Sense made. And Califano topped it all off by announcing that a new position was being created to lead...
...music evokes a futuristic, endless landscape of highways and smoldering refinery stacks. Although some of the instrumental passages could be briefer, the song represents a brilliant synthesis of Bowie's and Iggy's talents. A low sinister drone ends the tune in an effective, chilling fade...
...Carter has had a richly varied career: Annapolis graduate, Navy officer, nuclear engineer, successful farmer, businessman. Those experiences may have given him, as he insists, some feeling for the variety of problems facing the nation. But no President since Calvin Coolidge has entered the White House with a briefer public record. (Eisenhower had never held political office, but he had been a commanding world figure for a decade.) Carter has never served in any capital larger than Atlanta: four years in the Georgia Senate, four years as Governor of the nation's 14th largest state. The questions about him, however...
After a brief rest and a briefer call home (Van Nuys, Calif.), Bromwich went to dinner at Quincy House. Later he stretched out his blistered feet and Heartbreak Hill weary legs and watched a return of Rhoda. "It just goes unsaid that the Boston Marathon is the big time," Bromwich said...