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...Haile Selassie, the Congo's Joseph Mobutu and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta-Agnew told U.S. newsmen traveling with him that those Africans were "dedicated, enlightened, dynamic and extremely apt for the task that faces them." Then he added: "The quality of this leadership is in distinct contrast with many of those in the United States who have arrogated unto themselves the position of black leaders, those who spend their time in querulous complaint and constant recrimination against the rest of society." Agnew overlooked the obvious fact that these African rulers after all run their own countries; they could...
...supermarkets. Nearly all of the characters are played by junkies, not actors. They relive their lives for a camera that observes compassionately as each fix brings them that much closer to self-destruction. Mutrux views his characters as victims, if rather romantic ones. That attitude lends his film a distinct but unsatisfactory ambiguity...
...summertime entertainment, the popular novel retains certain distinct advantages over even the most portable television set. The book is easy to operate and almost never needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
...much to the character he created in The Wild Bunch, and the film itself owes similar debts to such illustrious predecessors as Red River and The Searchers. Writer-Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, Darling Lili) is more at home with gilded entertainments than campfire yarns. There is the distinct feeling about Wild Rovers that Edwards could not wait to get off the prairie and back to the penthouse...
Beginning in 1955 with an aging tramp steamer, Pao has built a fleet of 3.5 million tons, most of it in ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...