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...four months since France began boycotting the meetings of the European Economic Community, a feeling of gloom has spread over the Continent. Sensing that Charles de Gaulle wants to reshape the Common Market into his own instrument-or, failing that, to destroy it-France's five EEC partners have vacillated between despair and resistance. The result: an almost total lack of meaningful activity in the Market. Last week, in a swift and surprising reversal of form, the five ended their hesitation. At a two-day meeting at the Common Market's Brussels headquarters, they finally stood...
After an exhilarating start, the worst thing to befall Bunny Lake is the heavy hand of Director Preminger, a man who abhors half measures. He seeks to establish mood by plunging nearly every London setting into an all but impenetrable gloom. He recklessly tips off the viewer that a key character is deranged thus siphoning off surprise from a climactic mad scene for which no Oscars will be won. Meanwhile, Martita Hunt as a dotty old schoolmistress, and Noel Coward, as a dotty old literary type strive to stop the show with their patented idiosyncrasies. To keep...
...longer very easy to tell East Berliners from West Berliners simply by their clothes. The deadly gloom of East Berlin's Unter den Linden has lately been relieved by a couple of fashionable boutiques and some six-story buildings of aluminum and glass. The ponderous, ugly neoclassicism of the Stalinist era is shunned by the city's chief architect, Joachim Mather, 40, who draws his inspiration from Manhattan's Lever House. But to step into glistening West Berlin is still not only to step into another country; it is almost to visit another planet...
Other recent Sloan songs are studies in alienation: This Mornin' ("I seem to be existin' in a world that will not listen"), Child of Our Times ("They'll try to make hypocrisy your heredity, so choose your views most carefully"). Underneath the shroud of gloom, claims Sloan, an "instant solution" is there for the probing: "If the world is full of hate, we have to change it to love...
MANKIND takes pleasure in a certain amount of gloom...