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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychologist B.F. Skinner and his theories about human behavior drew 354 critical comments v. 71 admiring ones. Edward Kennedy's count was 213 in opposition, 30 in support. In general, people wanting...
...lost without an instant replay. More than any other innovation, it is the ability to take a second look at what has just happened that has kept the armchair fan riveted to his TV set.* Not only can he second-guess a referee's call, but he can count on savoring thrilling moments in slow motion and from different perspectives...
This, the seventh movie in the James Bond canon (the heretical Casino Royale, which postulated a horde of 007s instead of one, doesn't count), is in some ways the best of the lot. It is by all odds the broadest-which is to say wackiest, not sexiest. Indeed, the ladies of sinister sexuality (Jill St. John, Lana Wood) look like randy and overweight cheerleaders beside the likes of Domino and Pussy Galore. They furnish 007 with a few pleasant pit stops, but the real adventure lies elsewhere...
...French were among those who ended up "more equal" in the monetary settlement, especially in prestige. The settlement followed the technical demand for an increase in the price of gold that had long been pressed by Charles de Gaulle. The large French gold reserves ($3.5 billion worth at latest count) thus increased in value by 8.6% though the gains are largely theoretical for the time being, since the U.S. has stopped trading in gold. France also kept its currently prosperous trading position. The franc was not required to revalue upward at all (though it rose against the dollar...
...film makers occasionally comply, albeit inadvertently, as when Schaffner stages the obligatory scene of Mad Monk Rasputin wenching it up in a haystack, or when Goldman has Nikolai Vladimir Ilich Lenin grouse, "Well, Stalin has been exiled to Siberia again." There is even an occasional feint at topical significance. Count Witte (Laurence Olivier), trying to persuade Nicholas (Michael Jayston) to halt the Russo-Japanese War, says, "I'm advising you to stop a hopeless war." Replies the Czar: "The Russia my father gave me never lost...