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Though Scoop (the nickname came from an old cartoon character) humorously refers to himself as "an official non-candidate," he most certainly would like to be President. He is also frank about his chances. "I can read the polls," he says. "I can see how far out front Muskie is." If Muskie should stumble along the way, though, party leaders are bound to note that Jackson's disparate views give him as wide an ideological appeal as any other current Democratic hopeful now commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Democrats' Liberal Hawk on Capitol Hill | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...local priest (Per Oscarsson), all because of the influence of a wandering intellectual (Omar Sharif). As for the atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife. Clavell has doubtless been studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder: as the soldiers descend into the only unspoiled valley in Europe, the peasants disport themselves with picturesque energy. But always there is the obtrusive sense of the camera, always the feeling that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pillagers and Villagers | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...lockout of men engaged in the nation's defense boggled outside observers, it little surprised Swedes. Military officers enjoy the right to negotiate as a union and to take strike action (though they have never done so). Stockholm's morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, published a wry cartoon showing a large billboard inscribed with what it called a message from the Minister of Defense: "It is forbidden to engage in war against Sweden during the lockout." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sven Andersson assured critics that key men in defense posts would be exempt from the lockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Western Europe: The Luxury Strikes | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Italo Calvino introduced to American readers in 1968 wore the mask of a metaphysical clown. Cosmicomics was rare science fiction-half Borges, half Groucho Marx-impishly mythologizing how the universe began. Inventing a cartoon-like character named Qfwfq and a supporting cast headed by a galaxy-Eve. Mrs. Vhd Vhd Calvino winged it with superb airiness -a Peter Pan for the space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before Mrs. Vhd Vhd | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...must tell a good story and are judged principally on how they tell it. The suspense novel, as Maugham pointed out, should be short, inventive and cleanly written, unencumbered by purple passages or digressions. The detective should be an agreeable and intriguing character -perhaps an eccentric, but never a cartoon. Few writers would pass Maugham's test more handsomely than the late Margery Allingham, who, along with Dame Agatha Christie and the late Dorothy Sayers, dominated a golden age of suspense that began in England after World War I. Her aristocratic sleuth, Mr. Albert Campion, survived four decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exit Mr. Campion | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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