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Mineral King has also taken on a symbolic meaning, since it embraces many issues tied to the expanding American search for energy and society's attempts to pillage shrinking wilderness reserves. Not surprisingly, the Mineral King draft EIS--a voluminous tome whose cover pictures the resort's ersatz-Swiss-chalet-style village--tends to ignore larger issues...
...when he learned of Stavisky's first arrest some years before the action of the film takes place. Despite his own doctor's diagnosis of megalomania and schizophrenia, Belmondo's Stavisky is relatively attractive, down to the last minutes when he is trapped like an animal in a Swiss chalet, with stubble growing on his chin like a cheap American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns of his enemies. Above all, Stavisky is a man whose sense of living is somehow heightened, whose gestures are grandiose and larger than life. But, like a force of nature...
...Union message later this month. In addition, the Administration has also apparently given up on trying to cut the budget in an attempt to quell inflation. That decision alone, tentatively taken after two days of intensive discussions between Ford and his economic advisers at the President's vacation chalet in Vail, Colo., could mean that the federal deficit for the fiscal year beginning next July will swell to a massive $35 billion. The fact that the Administration is even contemplating such a deficit, which would be by far the biggest in U.S. peacetime history, shows that Ford is coming...
Returning as President this year, however, Ford had to move out of his own place for security reasons. He took a private seven-room Alpine chalet on a culdesac. Going to a strange house, deprived of her own things, Betty Ford remarked a bit wistfully that it was the first time in five years that she had had to remember to pack the Band-Aids...
...Elizabeth II proving as arbitrary and demanding as Elizabeth I? Rumors were rife in London that Richard Burton's new romance, Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, had folded her dreams and stolen back to the shelter of her London house, leaving Richard alone in his Alpine chalet. The rift was said to be caused by Richard's bouts of drinking, which even visits to a faith healer had failed to cure. A friend was reported to have said: "Before Burton swept her off her feet, Elizabeth thought her husband was dull. Now she realizes she could never endure...