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With its laser machines, fights to the death and exotic homicides, Diamonds Are Forever is like a Looney Tune. A chaotic car chase through the streets of downtown Las Vegas is the funniest scene of its kind since Roadrunner last boinked the coyote...
Italians, however, might-perhaps ought-to take special offense. Jimmy Breslin's comic novel recorded the exploits of a sad-sack mob of Brooklyn hoods with good-humored scorn. Waldo Salt's chaotic script turns Breslin's characters, which were already caricatures, into vicious racial stereotypes. Everyone is either venal, murderous, retarded or deformed; and since they are almost all Italians, one might be tempted to conclude that everyone whose ancestors were born between Sicily and Milan is a feeble-minded racketeer...
...Eastern Europe satellites. Brandt will want Nixon's assurances against a precipitous withdrawal of any or all of the 215,000 U.S. troops in West Germany, which are a vital factor in his dealings with the Soviets. Above all, Brandt will press for a quick reordering of the chaotic international monetary and trade structure...
...sure of nothing save his own intense vulnerability. An American mathematician, he has come with his wife Amy (Susan George) to her native village on the windy coast of Cornwall, where he hopes to spend a year doing research. He is also attempting to flee the chaotic violence of the U.S. -and to patch up an uneasy marriage. But there is to be no hiding place...
Things were indeed quieter than in the chaotic year before, the report said. But neither "calm" nor "tranquillity" were the words for what went on. According to the new findings, campus disruptions did not disappear but declined only to just below the level of the 1968-69 academic year, when Harvard and Cornell erupted into national headlines and many a parent wondered what the world was coming to. The chief difference, ACE argues, is that back then 40% of the troubled institutions got national coverage; last year only...