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...days in the shooting and ten months in the editing-and shows it. Marred by grainy film and fleshed out with documentary and pseudo-newsreel footage of the '20s, the film spends too much time on pickles, pushcarts and passersby. But it compensates with a fond, nostalgic score, a bumping, grinding chorus line and a series of closeups of the late Bert Lahr, who plays a retired burlesque comedian. Like Lahr, the film offers an engaging blend of mockery and melancholy...
...transmitters are much more common in the Soviet Union than in other nations because the vast size of the nation makes short-wave transmission the most practical way to reach the entire country. Perhaps as many as 30 million receivers are now in use, and listeners have become so fond of outside news and pop music (a recent headliner on the Voice of America: the Beatles' new album) that they are determined to stay tuned-if not to one station, then to another. By fiddling patiently with their dials, Russians overcome their government's effort to block...
...often flawed, some times naive but largely fascinating chronicle whose inflated pretensions as a work of real scholarship are punctured by swarms of errors. As a work of history, the book is marred, too, by an overwrought style and an unbecomingly snide use of irony. Manchester is not fond of the Germans, and he caricatures them either as superefficient and slavishly obedient or as a folk barely removed from dwarfs and dragons, blood feuds and bags of tainted gold...
...probably unfair to judge the results of a conference solely on what gets into the transcript. Much of the constructive dialogue was undoubtedly personal and informal, over drinks or coffee. But whether this "cross-fertilization of ideas," as some IACF people were fond of calling it, justified such an immense outlay of funds is uncertain at best...
...belt. But he won a personal victory of sorts. In part, Thieu's delay was a face-saving gesture. But in forcing some concessions from the U.S., he enhanced the credibility of his government as an independent entity rather than the "puppet" regime that the Communists are so fond of belaboring. Finally, Thieu strengthened his domestic position, and averted a rebellion among the hardliners, who are fearful of a sellout in Paris...