Word: harolds
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Britain's Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia "my Viet Nam"-and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson's war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an estimated $500 million in lost trade with Rhodesia. The failure of the sanctions has diminished Wilson's stature at home and Britain's standing with its Commonwealth allies. With South Africa's aid, Rhodesia has weathered the sanctions and could for all practical purposes simply declare itself a republic. It is already preparing a new green and white flag and a new constitution...
...made in innocence. The three runaways in Dreifuss's film aren't frustrated youths seeking knowledge and fulfillment, but jaded refugees from the hang-ups of social-realist films of the fifties, desperate to jump into the problems of the sixties. Similarly, the hashish-fudge that liberates Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) in Alice B. Toklas simply moves him in ten years away from a dated life-style toward the new and more-fashionable hangups of today...
Both films run afoul in failing to realize the potentials of this altered premise, offering instead an anticlimactic retreat to years-old cliche. The runaways in Chicago come up against syndicate prostitution and car theft, rather than amphetamine suicides, birth control, and police busts. Harold Fine's final disenchantment with his hippie existence is the combined result of (a) sexual jealousy, and (b) revulsion at how dirty hippies are (the screenplay sanctions the first, and seems deeply repelled by the latter), and leaves him at the finale in a limbo audiences would have found preposterous had not The Graduate conned...
...particularly loves Harold Arlen and tells us so. In this case explanation aren't needed, for his rendition of "Sleeping Bee" makes his affection abundantly clear. When Hammond sings Arlen, he lowers his voice considerably and we understand. He shows us that the last lines of the song ("A Sleeping Bee done told me/I will walk with my feet off the ground/When my one true love I has found.") are special to him. He makes them special for everyone listening as well...
...lead over Hubert Humphrey. The GOP also has hopes of capturing the Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti-Democratic avalanche...