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STRANGERS DEVOUR THE LAND...
Lusty Creatures. In its original incarnation, Sweet Movie included a scene in which some performers devour excrement. This precedent-shattering interlude has been removed. Still remaining is a sequence in which a character called Captain Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) strips in front of some eight-year-old boys and starts to unzip the fly of one wondering youngster. Presumably this will bring the boys' sexuality to abrupt flower and turn them into lusty, life-embracing creatures...
Runaway Spending. Rocky won Dixie hearts by talking like a dedicated conservative. "We have been through 15 years of overpromising and underdelivering by government," he said. Runaway spending threatens to devour half of the gross national product by the turn of the century, thus making it "impossible for the U.S. to survive as a free society." He cited the case of a bank president's affluent son who managed to get a handout of food stamps, and he declared it was time to cut back on welfare spending. "We've got to balance the budget at all levels...
...entice people into emigrating here. It says the University was founded "to advance learning and perpeutate it to posterity." Years laters Tomas Wolfe's fictional hero, Eugene Gant, came here and started reading books like crazy because "he simply wanted to know about everything on earth; he wanted to devour the earth and it drove him mad when he saw he could not do this." If there was anywhere you'd expect a modern Dr. Faustus to turn up it would be Widener Library, but these days, alas, people mostly talk about how they learned what they learned at Harvard...
...which would increase Egypt's production by about one-third and allow it even to export oil. The Suez Canal would be a little farther away from the muzzles of Israeli cannons. Sadat might even be able to begin thinking about reining in his defense expenditures, which now devour $2 billion, or 25% of the gross national product (v. $3.6 billion, or 30% for Israel). Sadat is hard-pressed even to feed his 37 million people, 96% of whom are crowded in a narrow, seven-mile strip running 500 miles along the Nile. Egypt's trade deficit...