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...scene sequence of the original film. He gives himself the freedom to make puns, play with sight gags, and concoct outrageously incongruent scenes--which is after all what he does best--without having to worry about the basics, which are already taken care of. This is not an altogether foolproof technique. The funniest scenes occur when Brooks leaves the real story behind and develops his own fantasies. When he is tinkering with the original scenes he tends to be over-literal and the humor becomes heavy-handed. For instance, he bungles the famous, pathetic scene in which the monster, hugging...
SUCH PLANS are plausible, though not foolproof. It is possible that a Conservative government could avoid proviking industrial unrest and so leave the militants stranded on the left. Coupled with massive infusions of foreign capital, such an appeal to British moderation might save British industry. It is possible that the political elements of the Labour party would prove strong enough to blunt the effects of the unionists' plans for redistribution of wealth. Unions might discover that their efforts to bring industry to a halt do not cause so much economic chaos as they expect...
...closer together than ever before-but will pose delicate problems for Nixon when he visits Israel this week. The President promised to try to provide Egypt with nuclear reactors and the know-how to operate atomic-power stations by the early 1980s. The main catch: working out a foolproof safeguard system to guarantee that the Egyptians could not use the nuclear equipment to make atomic weapons. The prospect of the Arabs' getting nuclear help from the U.S. raised immediate alarm in Israel and in the U.S. Congress. Democratic Senator Frank Church declared that Nixon had gone "beyond propriety...
There seemed to be distressingly few foolproof methods to curb any future wave of political abductions in the way in which skyjacking in the U.S. has largely been stopped. (Ironically, in the first U.S. skyjacking attempt in more than 13 months, three persons, including a would-be hijacker, were killed last week at the Baltimore Washington International Airport.) Dallas Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard, who helped create the celebrated "skyjacker profile," which has contributed much to reducing aerial hijackings, advocates a "federal law prohibiting payment of ransom in all cases involving kidnaping." He argues that potential kidnapers will be deterred only...
...Committee formulate an election regulation system so foolproof that some future group of "well-meaning men" could not attempt another political espionage operation--a "Watergate II"? Unfortunately, the odds would appear to be against...