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That hardly adds up yet to a comprehensive program, which of course it would be unfair to expect of Ford in his first week. The proposal for an economic summit, in particular, seemed designed to convey an impression of action, openness to ideas and determination to unite the nation against inflation rather than to yield any specific results. Even Administration officials do not expect the summit to turn up any thoughts that have not already been aired...
...wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here." But Moscow's preposterous Watergate coverage raises another question: whether the concept of détente includes an obligation on the part of Soviet authorities to convey to their people at least some glimmer of truth about the American political system...
...play is set in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. All action takes place in the home of Margaret and Will. Lee captures the bleak and barren quality of their marriage in the dingy walls and sparse furnishing of his interior but somehow he fails to convey the sense that this is a distinctly American environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play set in New England in 1974. Without being insistent or exclusive, Horowitz addresses himself to some peculiarly American obsessions and drives in Alfred the Great...
...would sometimes hide in the woods near his farmhouse, apparently hoping that his friends would think that he had come to harm. In the years after Elinor's death, she notes, "his incautious use of pills always stopped short of the ultimate message it was meant to convey...
This plot seems more aptly suited for comedy and is inadequate to convey any political messages Wertmuller intended. Her material is simple and scant, for the dim-witted peasant has no ideological beliefs to articulate and a thick blanket of fear stifles his emotions. Except for one drunken outburst and a wild frenzy at the end, his eyes are expressionless, with pupils the size of pinpoints...