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...these operations were in violation of the expressed will of Congress; they were kept secret. Prior to the widening of the war into Cambodia, the Kissinger-Nixon administration pursued a policy of heavy bombardment of supposed Communist base areas in Cambodia and Laos. When international press reports began to filter in, Kissinger lied in response to questions. When news of the bombing was finally leaked by persons on the National Security Council staff, Kissinger responded by tapping the phones of several staff members and reporters. Kissinger denied that he initiated such action, merely approving the taps. John Mitchell...
...title), and then cutting to a hand dropping a wine glass. Hands, cut off from the bodies they are supposed to serve, recur repeatedly in the film, symbols of creation and destruction, of free action and moral responsibility. The first two-thirds of Providenceis shot through a blue filter, evocative of the dark world of the unconscious, which is also the locale of Langham's latest novel. Here, characters wrestling with their inadequacies starkly confront the twin problems of living and dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will...
...that all these characters, all these scenes are fictive. After an hour-and-a-half of stylized dialogue sandwiched between ominous images--of bands of refugees waiting to be dragged away, of a body being disemboweled, of a hand turning over a rock to reveal worms crawling underneath, the filter is removed, and reality--conscious reality--glints forth in images of pastoral purity. We are back in Providence, Gielgud's luxurious estate, framed by equally lush verdure and a glittering lake, and the context of the preceding segments is gradually clarified...
...Life is like a recessed filter-always just a quarter-inch away...
...million new jobs-probably an impossibility. Some members of the Board of Economists worry that, in grappling with this and other economic problems, Carter and his advisers will focus too much attention on 1977, too little on what follows. A stimulus of any kind takes time to filter through the economy and become effective. The job, says Otto Eckstein, is not to pump up the 1977 figures as much as possible but "to create an underpinning for business and households for a better four years." The coming year, however, is the time when a speedup must at least begin...