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Boldrini predictably vowed to continue Mattei's policies, which involved buying huge shipments of oil from the Russians, offering cut-rate competition for private Western oil majors for drilling and refining rights in Africa and Asia, and aggressively tightening E.N.I.'s grasp on the Italian economy through interests ranging from fertilizers to cement. But Boldrini is neither young nor dynamic and much prefers his off time job as statistics professor at Rome University. He is being referred to as an "interim Pope...
...intense effort to draw dramatic situations from people's most primitive conflicts. Everything is straight and crude: the wedding brings together the son of a powerful widow (who wants him to produce more sons to carry on a family vendetta that killed her husband) and the daughter of a grasping landowner (who wants to grasp more land...
...Looking at my things." Theodore Robinson wrote in his diary, "I feel pretty blue. There are glimmers here and there of refined good painting-but a woeful slackness-a lack of grasp, of inspiration, interest." Once, on seeing some of his paintings in an exhibition, he spluttered: "My things are bum with one exception, the girl sewing, which has something redeeming." Actually, Robinson was rarely slack and almost never bum: he was one 19th century American artist who deserves more than the comparative obscurity that has been his fate. Last week a welcome retrospective of his work (see color) opened...
...shots are so badly matched that the mighty invasion fleet looks like a silly flotilla of peanut shells in a puddle. Worse yet. the film is confusing, and war's natural confusion is compounded. For want of legible maps, for want of sensible continuity, the spectator fails to grasp the operation as a whole: he often does not know where in hell or Normandy he is or why in the general scheme of things he is there. Worst of all, the film is dishonest. Though it is superficially true to the facts as Ryan reports them, it is fundamentally...
Although he now has West Irian safely in his grasp, Indonesia's President Sukarno has called for the continued massive build-up of Indonesia's army. His purpose: to be ready for any other chance to grab territory that might present itself, and to placate the army, the strongest and most restive element of his power...