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...Mouse--At last someone has managed to succeed in making a decent mystery murder movie this summer--you even wonder "who did it?" until the very end. This film really has everything in it, and is well done to boot. A big time, capitalist-industrialist type is mysteriously murdered and director Claude Lelouch has cleverly thrown enough clinkers into the mystery, including some good leftist twists about the rich and the poor, to make it worth your money...
...given way to a period of sluggishness and high inflation. Walt W. Rostow, who was one of Lyndon Johnson's chief aides, argues that the world has begun a new downward turn on the Kondratieff Cycle. In the 1920s Russian Economist N.D. Kondratieff theorized that capitalist economic development proceeds in up-and-down waves of 50 to 60 years each, which are determined by the confluence of invention, investment and trade. As Rostow explains it, the elements that caused the postwar boom (rapid technological advances, expanding trade and growing population) have lost their momentum...
...coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist. But that is what saves the image. He is the idealist as practical man-one who can make a plow or play a fiddle, though he was not 'practical' in the tawdry and capitalist sense: He had the good taste not to be a good businessman...
Last week the counter-counterrevolution began. The town board of Hempstead, L.I., unanimously banned pay air from the town's 500 stations. Said Presiding Supervisor Alphonse D'Amato: "Free air is almost a tradition in America. I don't think there is a place in the capitalist system to charge...
...romance between Joe and an ecologically activist English schoolteacher (Christie) may be the most touching part of the film. Initially a fervent enemy of the ruthlessly capitalist Farnsworth, the girl soon sees the genuine warmth and goodness of Joe beneath the Farnsworth exterior, and, of course, they fall in love...