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...with some of his ministers and in 1971 summarily fired his powerful Vice President, Ali Sabry. Sadat also faced rising resentment from his officers over the presence of Soviet advisers. Moreover, as Arab frustration grew over the unresolved "no war, no peace" situation with Israel, Sadat had an unfortunate habit of promising action but never delivering. His "year of decision," 1971, passed uneventfully. "We do not shrink from any sacrifice," he declared last year when he shuffled his Cabinet and made himself Premier as well as President, but nothing happened. "The battle is now inevitable," he promised last spring...
...done to their observance of Ramadan-the holy month of Islam during which devout Moslems abstain totally from food, drink and tobacco from sunrise to sunset. From Cairo, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn reports that "normally, Ramadan nights are more lively than the days. The Cairene's habit is to have an enormous 'lunch' at about 2 a.m. and go out on the town celebrating. But now, because of the war, restaurants shut at 11 p.m., as do most cabarets...
Apparently, Cosell responds to boredom or uneasiness by pressuring someone nearby with this kind of needling. He is wrong to confuse this habit with a sense of humor...
With a plot devoid of suspense, an air of regality is of the essence. Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity. George Grizzard suggests a jaunty detached habit of command, but any show of passion is dissipated in petulance. All in all, one has the unsettling impression that a pickup cast of stewards and maids from the crew of the Queen Elizabeth II could have mimicked royalty more convincingly...
...medieval religious art. Like many another image in Fantasia, it is also filtered through Art Deco, the popular style of the '30s. Using Deco idioms was as far as Disney ever went in the direction of classicism, but it would be shaky to suppose he picked up the habit in a museum. By the same token, he may never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms...