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...Hallmark Aids. Throughout, Everding has succeeded in projecting the lovers' desire for eternal night and their equation of day with destructive reality. Tristan dies in a bleak courtyard as the sun burns harshly through a sea mist. But Isolde's Liebestod brings on more aeronautics. Arms outstretched, she again appears in the firmament, looking for all the world like a "Peace on Earth" Christmas card...
...which is being released this week in Alaska and next week in the rest of the U.S. It is partly a definition of his two years as Interior Secretary, partly an exhortation for sweeping environmental reform, partly a popular politician's blunt view of the Nixon Administration. Its hallmark: an exuberant confidence in the wisdom of the American people, provided that their elected leaders present to them issues stripped of partisan politics...
...hallmark of the American political system that people think it makes no difference what politician is elected: most people think nothing can be changed by the political process," he drawled in an Oklahoman accent...
When the stock market took a depressing plunge last year, investors found out that advance estimates of rapid earnings growth were often the hallmark of imaginative stock promotion and simple overoptimism. Many an earnings report turned out to be disappointing indeed. The scandals that followed such discoveries are still rocking the accounting profession and the world of corporate finance. Now the Commerce Department's Office of Business Economics has revealed that profits have been even weaker than originally announced...
...Feminine Mystique to stir up the feminist movement after its 43-year relapse following ratification of the 19th amendment. Now, having achieved some success, the movement might be expected to show greater responsibility. Instead, in countless books and "consciousness raising" sessions, hyperbole seems to have become its hallmark. "The majority of women drag along from day to day in an apathetic twilight," states Germaine Greer unequivocally in The Female Eunuch. She warns that "women have very little idea of how much men hate them." The draconian arbiter of Sexual Politics, Kate Millett, has mentioned the "envy or amusement" she noticed...