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Trying to fix the blame for the high price of food has become a national preoccupation-a noisy adult version of pin the tail on the donkey, played by politicians, supermarketeers, farmers and consumers. Yet one thing is clear: despite a recent leveling, supermarket prices will climb further during 1972. That message came out of the Price Commission's hearings on food costs last week. As Assistant Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng said: "Increases in retail food prices will, overall, be modest. There will, however, be sizable price swings in individual commodities...
...finish our primitive life and we have consciousness. We have broken the strings. We think we are then free, but we are still machines, not humans. We must go to life and suffer in search for human life. We must become animal (and here Jodorowsky braws like a donkey), accept passions. Now Pinocchio goes into the ocean. The whale is the universal mother. It eats him and he is reborn. He is a human being, beautiful, clean...
Characterization: Max von Sydow, still the world's greatest living actor, performs his exits with dignity and control, answers the phone and adjusts his glasses, opens car doors, and sleeps, in what are certainly the film's most memorable frames--with the probable exception of the donkey, who appears briefly in a slide show staged for David's entertainment. ("Andreas," David muffles, "can't I see a picture of your wife NOOOD?") But seriously, von Sydow's performance in a confrontation with Gould, and in one with his wife, is miles above everything else in this hokey genre-piece...
...NATO matters." Unofficially, Agnew would visit his ancestral home as a private citizen. But when his olive-drab helicopter settled down at Gargalianoi (pop. 6,200), one day last week, Agnew saw the streets lined with some 60,000 cheering peasants who had come on foot and by donkey and chartered bus from miles around. At Agnew's side, his head reaching only to Agnew's shoulder, stood Premier Papadopoulos...
Jacques is the son of a wealthy landowner. Maric is the daughter of one of his tenant farmers. They meet as children, play with the donkey Balthazer, carve their names on a bench and promise to be forever faithful...