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Still, McQueen works hard and al most manages to triumph over his star presence, while Hoffman submerges himself eccentrically and amusingly in his coward's role. Papillon inevitably refers us to old movies rather than to reality. Audiences whose expectations do not exceed their grasp will find it a much more comfortable vehicle for escape than any that McQueen & Co. discover on location...
...familiar enough situation, but it is given novelty by Frangoise's ambition "to live like a man"−to enjoy the freedoms generally granted only to the male sex. What gives La Bonne Annee much of its real grace and melancholy charm is Simon's struggle to grasp this and, when he returns from prison, to accept Franchise's explanation for the presence of another man and of other, men in the past: "It was my way of waiting-of staying alive...
Hardest Problem. In only about a year in Washington, he has impressed other bureaucrats, Congressmen and oil executives with his quick grasp of complex energy policies, and his appointment brought forth a chorus of praise that he finds almost embarrassing. Says Representative Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, a strong critic of the Administration's energy performance: "Of all the people I have dealt with in 15 years on this problem, Simon is the best. He has a handle on it better than anyone in the Government...
Alien Notions. Full independence for Papua New Guinea, scheduled for some time around the end of next year, is even more difficult to grasp; it involves such alien notions as defense and foreign affairs, which are now administered by Australia. But the Australians clearly are eager to shed their responsibilities as soon as possible. They inherited Papua from Britain in 1906 and took New Guinea from Germany in World War I, administering it in recent years as a U.N. trustee. Together, the two territories constitute the eastern half of the world's second largest island (after Greenland); the rest...
Wells's imagination soared to unequaled heights in the early parts of the twentieth century. But its unfirm grasp of reality and its reliance on magical science--which at times predicted many real things to come--was too shaky. It had to fall. The MacKenzies have captured much of that capitulation in H.G. Wells. In a way, they have missed a lot, too. Their strict chronological progression never really succeeds in making Wells lifelike. He remains, to a certain extent, a flat two-dimensional shadow lurking behind an endless series of documents and letters. His works are too simply explained...