Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coup Fever. The transformation began several weeks ago when the slackening of ground action became apparent. And although individual acts of terrorism continued, the threat of indiscriminate rocketing ebbed. No rockets have plummeted into Saigon, in fact, since Aug. 22. Despite a brief attack of coup fever last month, the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu displayed more and more confidence. Then the rumors of a complete bombing halt swept Saigon, the terror stopped, and peace fever prevailed...
...intellectual elite. A factory hand summed up the prevailing bitter mood of those Czechoslovaks who remain: "We will work even less than before; we will be the greatest country of nonworkers." All too evidently, the country was slipping back from its luminous "spring" (as the Czechoslovaks call their brief period of reform) toward the lusterless mediocrity of a Soviet satellite...
...change. Initially, just as his book predicts, the public reaction in Madrid was sympathetic but skeptical. "It might work elsewhere," a student said, "but it's like a fly running into a stone wall here." Indeed, Arias was quickly indicted for two violations of the penal code. His brief walk for freedom could cost him from one month to six years in prison...
Confined to a few brief scenes, the bearded Mitchum is little more than a cameo of a goat. The bloated, bejeweled Taylor seems less a depleted call girl than a prosperous madam. But alternately snooty or snarling, she does underline the message of her role: there is nothing more pretentious than swank posing as class. Unfortunately, that is the message of the film as well...
Muriel Spark's novels are somewhat predictable in form, but they'are always brief, funny, shrewd and a little daft. Usually, she takes a group of similar people-bachelors, schoolgirls, residents of a hamlet-and throws them into a common dilemma. The Public Image departs from that pattern...