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...first told West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that a boycott was not being considered. Carter changed his mind, and Bonn was given only two hours' notice before the boycott was announced. Said a West German diplomat of last week's Security Council debacle: "The U.N. flip-flop is just one more piece of evidence to support Schmidt's contention that West Europeans must look out for themselves, and protect themselves as much as possible against the effect of these Carter fiascoes...
...movie or TV show always involves considerable risk. But the real high rollers are in the theater, and opening night in Manhattan is always a kind of crap game. Within two hours the play is either a success or a flop. Either way, years may have gone into the production, and the story behind the play is often more interesting than the play itself. To find out what goes on, TIME's Elaine Dutka spent three weeks behind the scenes of William Hamilton's Save Grand Central, a comedy of manners in which two couples find happiness...
Among the Democrats who want to succeed him, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. deserves commendation for raising important issues and advancing interesting proposals; his record on energy is one of innovation and intelligence. But his inexperience and tendency towards opportunism--the notorious flip-flop on Proposition 13 being the most worrisome example--limit his attractiveness as a candidate...
...turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin. The basic idea is clever: Martin is cast as the loving, beloved adopted son of a family of black sharecroppers. He is dumb as cow-flop and hopeless at foot shufflin' and finger snappin', but he tries hard. When he is ready to go out into the big world and his black mother (Mabel King) tells him that he was adopted, he is horrified: "You mean I'm gonna stay this color...
...decade just ended left behind a great many fresh reminders of why prophets have always had difficulty winning honor on their own turf. The forecasting about the 1970s turned out to be a pathetic flop. Virulent inflation and an epochal energy crisis are only two of the most ominous realities that eluded the visions of virtually every forecaster. Moreover, the failure was marked by far more than the understandable inability to foresee all the astonishments to come; many, perhaps most, of the positive projections also turned out to be dismally wrong. To mention only one, the twinkle-toed, bell-bottomed...