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Among the "classics" canonized in Confessions of a Cultist are Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's The Birds, Preminger's Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit that non-auteurs can produce great films. Each has raw narrative material of questionable significance, and a blatant commercial bent which made the few respectable critics feel rotten and cheated the morning after, unless trash was all they expected...
Where laws exist, many statutes permit politicians to make superficial disclosures. Each candidate for the Senate and House is required by federal law to list funds received and spent "by him or by any person for him with his knowledge or consent." Taking pains not to have knowledge or give consent (by leaving fiscal matters to specially created committees) enables big spenders quite honestly to have nothing to report. Hidden coststhe loan of a secretary from a business executive, the use of a corporate plane, access to computersare seldom disclosed...
...they would have to adopt a common tax system and jointly set national budgets. Having done all that, the Common Market could expand its present customs union into a full economic and monetary confederation. Thereafter, member countries would no longer be able to finance government deficits (except with the consent of the confederation) in the old, easy way by expanding their money supply. Instead, deficits would have to be met by higher taxes or government borrowing from individuals...
RHODE ISLAND: Democratic Senator John O. Pastore is the favorite over Rev. John J. McLaughlin. Both are liberals who support the McGovern Hatfield amendment. Pastore will benefit from the August 21 announcement by the Bishop of Providence that McLaughlin did not have the consent of the church in his bid for office. Rhode Island is a heavily Catholic, traditionally Democratic state, and Pastore should have no trouble...
...Commission conceded, however, that the effect of pornography on children could be damaging. It urged legislative regulations on "the sale of sexual materials to young persons who do not have the consent of their parents" to prevent the problem...