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...bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this affliction: many American writers have grown self-satisfied, and this persistent complacency has lent their works about as much novelty and excitement as a Harold Stassen campaign address. When that happens, everyone is a sure loser...
...faults of The Last Tycoon as a movie are mainly those of the book, to which screenwriter Harold Pinter has, on the whole, been faithful. What Fitzgerald left us when he died was only a fragment of a novel, a draft of a story still halfway from completion. Fitzgerald's narrator is Cecilia Brady, the daughter of Stahr's business partner, who views Hollywood "with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house." It is through Cecilia, whose gaze is at first glazed by infatuation and later embittered by cynicism, that we meet and experience Monroe Stahr...
...That is nothing new. Though Fleet Street's influential national dailies are freighted with sex, scandal and scholarly dissertations on foreign policy, hard-digging investigative reporting is all but impossible. "Our law and our attitudes have been conditioned to defend free speech rather than free inquiry," observes Editor Harold Evans, whose exceptionally aggressive Sunday Times has repeatedly incurred government wrath in the past decade. "It is all right to utter opinion but not to publish the supporting evidence." Thus probably no British newspaper would have got away with a disclosure similar to the Washington Post's report last...
Those days are no more, in the opinion of Sgt. Harold F. Murphy, technical advisor for community relations at the Cambridge Police Department. Citing department statistics, he points out that in 1975, 3687 automobiles were stolen in Cambridge, compared...
Despite domestic opposition, recent indications of Soviet willingness to negotiate significant armament restrictions offer an important opportunity for Warnke when the talks begin again next month in Moscow, but much will depend on administration support. Recent actions by Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown offer little reason for hope. Although Carter's amendments to the Ford defense budget promise certain reductions, they are achieved primarily by stretching out purchases of new weapons systems like the B-1 and the M-X rather than aiming for permanent reductions. If these "reductions" are meant as signals to the Soviet Union...