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Henry began with a funny situation but no plot. So he resorted to a feeble device: the meeting of senescent civilization (the President's clan) and wily savagery (the potentates of Upper Gorm, an African nation with rich uranium deposits). When Newhart meets the Gormese, the two men cannot understand each other, which makes for five minutes of ennui. They are not the only odd couple in the film. In scene after scene, behavioral comedy attempts to engage in a dialogue with slapstick satire. But these are different comic languages, and the two forms finally fall silent in defeat...
Well-represented in the tournament, the Khan clan maintained its omnipresence in the results of Yusuf and Aziz. Yusuf Khan beat Peter Bostwick in the Grand Masters tournament final. Aziz, loser to Desaulniers in the semis of the main draw, topped Alger for third place...
...York writers asked Lippmann to join them as founding editor of the New Republic, launched as the voice of anticorporate progressivism. His editorials in the New Republic's early days drew the attention of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The war president chose Lippmann to serve in a clan-destine group helping draft political boundaries for post-World War Europe; from its inquiry emerged the famous Fourteen Points...
...played with exemplary restraint by Tatsuya Nakadai, who also plays the man he is doubling for) grows into his leadership role, acquiring the wisdom that should accompany leadership. In due course he is undone through ironic circumstances. And after that, one must witness the undoing of Shingen's clan through the misrule of his successor. Kurosawa contemplates ruin as he contemplates glory, with an objective thought as to what can be salvaged from disaster in the way of a momentary beauty, the accidental congeries of color and composition that men create as they go about their often bloody affairs...
Carter's blatant politicking while in office has sown the seeds of paranoia, a tension of the type he claimed he would dispel. Who knows what U.S. foreign policy is exactly? Is the Georgia clan running the country? More conspiratorially, some have wondered if Carter deliberately induced the recession knowing the slump would tail off and conditions would be "improving" around election time. Perhaps that scheme seems ridiculous, but such is the psychological atmosphere--and it only represents relativistic politics taken to a logical extreme...