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...Bertolucci, whose political melodrama The Conformist was one of the most highly praised foreign films of 1971, has marshaled his opulent visual style to tell a stark story of sex as a be-all and end-all. For boldness and brutality, the intimate scenes are unprecedented in feature films. Frontal nudity, four-letter words, masturbation, even sodomy-Bertolucci dwells uncompromisingly on them all with a voyeur's eye, a moralist's savagery, an artist's finesse...
...rival and the Administration's nettlesome enemy. A White House aide confirmed that suspicion. "The whole idea [in granting the interviews]," he told TIME, "was to screw the Washington Post. The thinking was, 'How can we hurt the Post the most?' They seem to relish the frontal attacks. The answer is to get people thinking, 'I wonder what's in the Star-News today...
...Administration ploy was part of a long feud with the Post, exacerbated in recent months by the paper's relentless pursuit of the Watergate and other political-espionage stories. Reverting to "frontal attacks" after the Horner stories appeared, Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson accused the Post of "McCarthyism" in its use of anti-G.O.P. allegations. Colson described Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee as the "self-appointed leader of a tiny fringe of arrogant elitists." Remarked Bradlee: "I just don't think I'm going to answer that stuff from Mr. Colson." His reaction...
Maybe, say the experts, McGovern's frontal assault on the scandals will touch a well of slumbering outrage. But his stridency contains its own backlash. His charge that the Nixon Administration is the most corrupt in the Republic's history is dubious. But something is iridescently wrong there. This Administration's record will, one suspects, find its historical place in the rather short line of federal manipulation and political skulduggery, big and small, that burgeoned with Ulysses Grant. The gold, whisky and railroad manipulations in the unsuspecting Grant's time besmirched his reputation for a century...
...television audience, a national convention comes on like a minor Gettysburg. There are frontal attacks, skirmishes in obscure corners- all accompanied by fanfares and flourishes. But as any general will tell you, the thing to know is where the reserves are hidden, which woods conceal what cavalry and who commands them. It is this analysis of men of significance that is the yearlong concern of TIME'S political coverage- and especially so during the quadrennial convention battles...