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Gusto Game. Whatever they called it, the networks spent the evening in furious competition, playing with gusto the game they had vowed not to engage in this outing. After ABC and NBC guessed wrong in pronouncing Morris Udall the victor of last April's Wisconsin primary (Carter came from behind during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed...
Criticism is not welcomed. When the celebrated South African play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead was presented in Umtata, Matanzima was furious at its barbed references to the Transkei's independence as meaningless. Though the play has been hailed both in the U.S. and Britain, Matanzima closed it down and jailed Xhosa Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona (who appeared in it on Broadway last year) on the grounds that the play was "highly inflammatory, abusive and vulgar...
Panamanians were furious. Moreover, Carter's position ran counter to his promise to improve U.S. relations with Latin American countries, which, for the most part, regard the zone as a distasteful vestige of U.S. imperialism. At a lunch with Latin American diplomats the next day, Kissinger went out of his way to reassure them that Ford's policy on the canal has not changed...
Along with this already daunting prospect, Watkins wants the audience to share Munch's own furious insights and tilted perceptions. So the movie becomes as gloom-ridden, as frightened and obsessive as the youthful artist himself. Watkins fragments the film, fords the stream of consciousness, forsaking the obvious for the magnification of a detail. The narration (read on the sound track by the director himself) informs us that Munch eventually developed agoraphobia. In a more conventional film, we would have been treated to scenes of the artist reeling down streets, cowering in his room. Not here. Once stated...
...unprecedented criticism of Moody's stems indirectly from letters written to various public officials-including Moody's President John Lockton-by Arthur Cohen, a Hollywood, Fla., businessman who holds $50,000 worth of New York City notes. Cohen was furious about the state's decision to put a moratorium on payment of principal of outstanding city notes. In one of his latest letters to Lockton, Cohen charged that New York Governor Hugh Carey "and his legislative colleagues have perpetrated what amounts to one of the biggest fraudulent acts" in U.S. history. He further claimed that challenges...