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...PASSENGER depends on our capacity for readjustment. From the beginning, it makes each images new, each person distinct and alone, throwing our soft store of working axioms out the window. Audiences are always comfortable watching social comedies because they can immediately grasp the values and understand what they are being ordered to respond to within each given frame. Antonioni puts it all up for re-examination. Some time ago, he said...
Nixon named Scali U.N. envoy in December 1972, after Scali had finished two years as special consultant to the President for foreign affairs. Nixon admired Scali's grasp of world politics, and during his stay at the White House, Scali accompanied the President on his trips to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. In the process, Scali also earned the dislike of Henry Kissinger. While in Washington, Scali bristled at the king-size Kissinger ego, and of late at the U.N. relations between the two men have grown increasingly strained. Scali was especially annoyed...
Ford's survey of the rest of the world was disappointing in its predictableness, and was delivered in a manner that at times suggested he did not have a firm grasp of what he was talking about. Instead of a thorough reassessment of U.S. foreign policy, which he had promised, Ford pretty much reaffirmed long-held U.S. positions. As expected, he declared that the U.S.'s difficulties in Indochina did not mean that the U.S. had been rendered impotent elsewhere. "Let no potential adversary believe that our difficulties or our debates mean a slackening of our national will," he warned...
...BUTLEY is cast out of a familiar mold. An obnoxious ass of an academic, he freely assaults our sympathies and yet, at the same time, manages to force his grasp upon them. He's ready to insult anyone and everyone who wanders into his cramped little office; he's always willing to play the irritating fool; he struts and scorns in a bald exhibition of inflated ego and pomposity--but, "in point of fact," he's so annoyingly good at it that he can't help but win the appreciation, if not the admiration, of the audience--his audience...
...steady gains of the previous four years reversed. A shortfall of 15 million tons in Russia, nine million tons in India, and five million tons in Australia, was enough to pinch supplies around the globe. Food production adequate for all, a possibility seemingly within our grasp in 1971 was suddenly beyond our reach...