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...enough individual merits to redeem its overall flaws. Though their film lacks the compact literacy of The Prisoner, Costa-Gavras and his Z squad (Screenwriter Jorge Semprun and Director of Photography Raoul Coutard) are too subtle and ingenious to make anything conspicuously bad. The brutal indifference of lower-echelon toughs is conveyed with deadly certainty. The pathetic buffoonery of a courtroom defendant losing his pants is an excruciatingly effective touch of humor. Nor is it possible to fault Montand's performance as a Camus figure cast into a dialectic inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dialectic Inferno | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...involvement in some of the more spectacular phonies foisted on the West. The so-called "memoir" by the late Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Commissar, was actually produced by a Soviet defector in Paris, while The Penkovsky Papers, purportedly the diaries of a spy in the upper echelon of the Soviet intelligence system who was caught and shot, were allegedly partly concocted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Story Behind the Story | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...does. And the incident illustrates Martha Mitchell's virulent case of Potomac Fever, a malady to which few top-and middle-echelon Washington wives are immune?whether they be Watergate nouveaux, Georgetown chic, or Cleveland Park intellectual elbow-patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha Mitchell's View From The Top | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...table in the Cabinet Room last week to reassure them that the 1970 election was no worse than a tie-and that what counts is what happens two years hence, in 1972. The Nixon players came in two platoons: first the Cabinet members and then some 30 top-echelon White House aides. With Daughter Tricia seated beside him, Nixon spent nearly an hour laying down his analysis of the returns. His conclusion: "The election, ideologically, was enormously successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How Nixon Interprets the Election | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

They went out when the Cultural Revolution began. The upper echelon of the diplomatic corps was ordered home to undergo intensive reindoctrination in Mao's thoughts, and repeated sessions of selfcriticism. When the Ambassador to Pakistan returned to Peking, for example, he was compelled to kneel at the airport, bow to the masses and confess that he had picked up bourgeois habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: The Lights Go On Again | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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