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...Charleston and ballroom-dancing sequences, Nureyev shows the audience what might have been: an erotic figure far more alive than the glittery props and people who surrounded him. But the actor's incapacities are in fact enlarged, rather than disguised, by Director Russell. The major movie that might have been is swallowed by the pretensions of a director who, like his villains, murders what he claims to dissect. - Richard Schickel
...Martin's Lidya is a scatterbrained and whimsical sprite of a woman whose very casualness with truth seems to put her beyond Rodion's reach. Naturally, love outs - in a scene of bubbly, moonlit tipsiness that finds the two codgers cajoling each other into doing an arthritic Charleston that would vindicate the evening if nothing else...
...Jimmy Carter's first full-length speech on Soviet-American relations. Here was the President on what looked for all the world like an old-fashioned barnstorming tour through his native South last week, and here were 500 Southern state legislators in the gardenia-adorned Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, S.C., all ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next day, he was lifted by helicopter...
...high point of two frenetic days of travel, though, was Carter's stopover in Charleston. The spectacle of thousands of people turning out in 100° temperatures to cheer the presidential motorcade as it wound through Charleston's narrow myrtle-scented streets evoked familiar campaign memories, but Carter quickly made clear to the legislators that he had a much broader-and more distant-audience in mind...
...strategic weapons buildup if the Soviets did the same. But if Moscow persists in holding out against a SALT pact, he warned, "the U.S. can and will do what it must to protect its security and ensure the adequacy of its strategic posture." That line drew thumping applause in Charleston, but to Russian ears it must have sounded like a threat to resume the arms race...