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...suppose this can all be explained. Fellini is no dodo. He is making a film about decadent Roman society, and where we decadent Americans presume that our symbols have some reference beyond themselves, and thus make for a cleaner reality on another level, the symbols of Fellini's Rome never flee the decadence and malaise that creates them. For example, in one take, two of the main characters are walking past a side street, up which horses are drawing a 20-foot high statue of a head. The two are on their way to a brothel. Trying to understand...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: The Moviegoer Fellini Satyricon at the Cheri 3 | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...explained that the files-bundled in two packages on a desk of a locked room in the OG AND CP-were mistakenly removed by a cleaner late Wednesday night. "The cleaner is the only other man who has a key," Fox said...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: OG AND CP Explores Cambridge Dump For Lost Papers | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

Reshaping economic growth to create a cleaner, better society involves a difficult choice: How does the nation want to distribute its income and physical resources? There is a price that must be paid for raising the quality of life, just as there is for increasing the horsepower of an auto or the yield of a tomato patch. If the growth of production slows, the consumer will have less in the way of goods. But he may also be able to live with less noise, smog, crowding and anxiety. In some cases and some places, slower development can be a positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Growth: New Doubts About an Old Ideal | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...organization runs up a startling string of victories in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Oregon and California. By convention time, some party strategists begin to think that Nixon may not be quite as invulnerable as he looks. Inflation is down, but 200,000 American troops remain in Viet Nam. The cleaner environment that Nixon envisioned proves more expensive, more elusive, more difficult to achieve than anticipated. His soothing policies of underplaying national problems worked well for a time, but now the nation is growing somewhat restive again. Although the President still seems unbeatable, the Democrats think they might magnify and capitalize on gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Lindsay: A Political Fantasy | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...review all federal activities that affect the quality of life and make reports directly to the President. Last week President Nixon named the first chairman of the new council: Russell E. Train, Under Secretary of the Interior, who firmly believes that "the people of this country want a cleaner environment, and they are ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Conservation Caretaker | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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