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...distill it into alcohol for industrial purposes-an expensive process that would require unpopular subsidies by all Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock, an interested EEC observer, declared last week, "We must drain this wine lake in a way that can benefit people who deserve a tipple. In these lunatic circumstances, perhaps we had all better...
...book should be faulted for anything, perhaps it should be for putting things in terms that are too black and white. Not everyone who falls in love becomes heartless or goes crazy, and the excess of madness in the book almost reaches the point of being ridiculous. Here too, the ability of the Marias (or at least of one of them) to see themselves objectively just saves them, and they stick in an intentionally ridiculous vignette of a woman who is committed to an asylum after her parents find her locked in copulation with a large...
...messiah. Townshend wavered crazily between satire, science fiction and sanctimony; Russell mocks the very seriousness of the piece itself by focusing on, then extending it. The movie is entirely sung; there is no dialogue. But there are several added narrative fillips and some lavish production numbers whose very excess is their own meaning...
...fast and skimpy. They filmed the whole of this to be released as one picture, but somebody decided they could milk us for two. Sneak in the back and have a nice time, but the self-respecting ought not give those bastards the satisfaction of paying $2.50 for excess footage...
Helping Hand. Venezuela has consistently refused to give its neighbors any break on oil prices. The government has announced, however, that it is setting aside all revenues received from Central American nations in excess of $6 per bbl. (the oil now sells for about $10.44 per bbl.), and is lending the money back to those nations for development projects. The interest charged is reasonable-from 6% to 8%-but the Caracas government must approve the uses to which the loans are put. To a degree, Venezuela's helping-hand programs smack of a paternalism that at another time...