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...Olympics have generated plenty of news for the 5,500 foreign journalists on hand.* The International Olympic Committee met in Moscow's House of Unions for four days before the opening ceremonies, and members spent much of the time debating the boycott. The meetings also produced a flap over the American flag. I.O.C. officials want to run it up the pole at the Games' conclusion, as protocol dictates, to signify the U.S. as the site of the 1984 Olympiad. White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler last week sent the I.O.C. a letter objecting to that plan, but the committee...
JACK NICHOLSON plays Jack Torrance with an incredible range of facial contortions and emotional gyrations. He keeps us laughing nervously along, alienated from Shelley Duvall's goofy Wendy, eager to see what new twitch he will add to his repertoire. His eyebrows flap like crazy crows and his mouth and eyes twist into an astounding collection of evil leers. Even his voice changes frequency. This brilliantly amusing psychopath is a stylized mixture of madman and dramatic artist, one glazed eye directed at himself, the other on Danny, who is played to terrified perfection by little Danny Lloyd...
Begin lashed back at Sadat's suspension of the talks as "incomprehensible" and insisted that Israel would have to agree on when and where negotiations should resume. The cause of the latest flap was an apparent misunderstanding by Sadat of some doings in the Israeli Knesset...
Nearly all the new research reports dealt with biochemistry and kindred disciplines. Faced with competition from nonmedical therapists, psychiatrists are clearly flocking back to their medical roots. In fact, the ERA furor provided the main relief from biology and chemistry. Stirred by the flap, Author Barbara Ehrenreich tossed away her text ("Work and Love: Can Women Have Both?") and lectured psychiatrists on their failures. Said she: "Psychiatric theory said that women could find fulfillment only through a life of child bearing and domesticity." That argument, though overstated, helped bring the change...
...George has had enough this time, and he's left for good--a free man, armed with his latest invention, an envelope with gum on both sides of the flap. At the pub, Harry the horseplayer and the dopey seaman Able (from the new navy) play on George's wild dreams until they convince him that he, with Harry, can revolutionize the envelope industry. Soon George derails again, wanders into the past in a monologue, and we return to the Riley home, a place where, as George explains, "I give nothing, I gain nothing, it is nothing...