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...that does not pander to youthful passion, express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...
Thanks to Clement's superb sense of mood and control, the film skips along so briskly that the viewer forgets that two hours is a long time to spend watching an ancient contrivance complete with a menacing stranger, misleading extra corpses and mixed handbags of loot...
...presidential isolation, argues Bryce Harlow. As his Administration wears on, every President gets into trouble and he begins to feel cloistered?and the inner circle expands as he reaches out for fresh opinion. There is already evidence of this in Nixon's Washington. John Mitchell, the patron of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell, recently expressed his concern at "the amount of popular cynicism about the Supreme Court." Before a group of his own restive civil rights lawyers, he pointed proudly to his department's accomplishments for Southern blacks; in one year, it added 108 school districts...
...basic issue of policy, he normally quits and tells why. Thus, Britain's former Foreign Secretary George Brown resigned his portfolio in 1968, complaining about what he thought was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's high-handed one-man rule. Some years earlier, Wilson himself left Clement Attlee's regime in protest against an emphasis on arms over social welfare. Anthony Eden suffered similar Cabinet defections as a result of his Suez policy in 1956, even as, nearly 20 years earlier, he had repudiated Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini by his own resignation. The British have...
Remembering how Clement Hayns worth Jr.'s candidacy foundered on allegations of conflict of interest, the com mittee delved deeply into Blackmun's financial record. The Senators noted that in his eleven years on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Blackmun heard 900 cases and participated in only four suits where he had even a remote financial interest in one of the litigants. The committee backed the American Bar Association's finding that "his stockholdings are so small that, in our opinion, he violated no statute or canon...