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More than a few members of Congress adhered to Justice White's contention that the modern Government is vast and powerful beyond the imaginations of the founding fathers, and so requires a fetter like the legislative veto. If this view prevails, the long-term effect of the court's decision, ironically, might be to encourage Congress to seek even more power than it wielded before, by passing hundreds or thousands of narrow, specific prescriptions on presidential prerogatives. "The court's decision," said G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, "has catapulted Congress into years of complex, cumbersome legislative...
...children of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini did not really understand the scandal that raged when their parents fell in love and Bergman left her husband, Dr. Fetter Lindstrom, to live unmarried with Rossellini and have a child, Roberto, by him. Isabella and her twin sister Ingrid were born in 1952, two years later, and their parents were married. But the scandal continued to haunt them. Says Isabella: "Every time Father came out with an unsuccessful film, the critics said he was old and crazy. We felt these assaults, and the intrusion of the paparazzi, very deeply, and we became...
Prayer has never been prohibited in this nation of many religions. We should not fetter our freedom of religion by mandating Christian public prayer in our schools [May 17]. This will lead only to making the non-Christian child a pariah...
This is a set piece, a still life, but understatement--and a raging epidemic of meaningful glances and message-laden smiles--fetter the film badly. When Gilles half-rapes a visitor, the activity is more jarring, more painful to watch, than the plot warrants, simply because it contrasts so sharply with the general torpor. Only one scene is triumphant--when Louise and family friend Yvette (the wonderful Delphine Seyrig, of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) don slacks for the first time and model them for Gilles, and though it is the opposite of physical flesh-baring, it causes...
Ingrid's Swedish husband, Fetter Lindstrom, a brain surgeon, persuaded her to smooth her frown, lay office cream and the fourth martini. He also advised her to emulate Garbo by keeping her garrulous mouth shut. On a movie set she stood up to directors; in real life she was easily led. Someone even had to tell her to abandon her marriage. Combat Photographer Robert Capa, whom she met in Paris after the war, tried. They loved each other, but he was not the marrying sort...