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...under Betancourt, the presidential household often resembled a threering circus. Appointments were constantly broken while the President chased hither and yon. Leoni, who spent six years straw-bossing Betancourt's A.D. Party, is a better administrator. He sees every minister at least once a week privately in his office, presides at a regular weekly full-dress Cabinet meeting. He pays careful attention to Venezuela's sensitive military. And he still finds time for the public ribbon-snipping that Betancourt found so useful. Last month, on a trip to Maracaibo, Leoni dedicated a new teachers col lege, the first...
...this movie version of Charles G. Finney's unearthly 1935 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao, Randall solves other people's "plobrems." The film is a veritable fortune cookie: a frothy dab of nothing and inside a message about the frailty of man's illusions. To deliver it, Randall also impersonates: Merlin the magician; a seer; the Abominable Snowman; a talking snake; a syrinx-playing satyr who pipes away inhibitions; and a Medusa who turns a small town shrew to stone...
PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER. A small circus troupe travels along a country road and a clown, white from head to foot, brings up the rear riding on a donkey. Parable is a wordless but colorful film that lets the viewer draw his own parallels as it follows the clown about his good-will way, winning friends and earning enemies, until finally he is symbolically crucified...
...eastern city of Santiago, where Castro started his revolution, the visiting newsmen were treated to the kind of is-everybody-happy circus that Communists specialize in. Though the Cuban economy goes from bad to worse (this year's sugar crop may not equal last year's 3,800,000 tons, only half the pre-Castro harvest), Santiago restaurants were filled with food; bands played, and carnival crowds were on parade. In high good humor, Castro drove through the streets, chatted with local officials, even sidearmed a few baseballs to two of the reporters in a local stadium...
PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER. For an eloquent little film called Parable, Writer-Director Rolf Forsberg chose a setting much like the fair itself. A sad-eyed clown in whiteface trails behind a circus troupe, collects a host of friends and a slew of enemies. Finally, when he frees some human puppets from their cruel manipulator, he is symbolically crucified...