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Through lush summers and harsh winters, Francis and his group of friends build their "people's church" of San Damiano, under the eyes of a primitive Christ-figure that adorns one of its walls. The "cream of the city's youth" desert the town to follow the companion with whom they once warred and whored, towards a life of charity and chastity...
Just about. In the face of harsh congressional criticism, the Administration assigned a task force to find a legal basis for its strategy and finally argued that the bombing was merely a continuation of existing policy. "If the President had the authority to pursue the cease-fire agreements," Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson declared before a House subcommittee last week, "he has the authority to secure adherence for those agreements." The agreements call for "an end to all military activities in Cambodia and Laos," so if the Communists go on fighting, the U.S. can go on bombing. What it all amounted...
...they should be excised, and exhibited by themselves as masterful short subjects. When Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider screw standing up, or shove each other up the ass with various appendages, or play with tenderness in a bathtub scene, director Bernardo Bertolucci's only intent is to evoke passion, harsh, hot or loving --and his intention is fulfilled...
...seemingly drugged appearance in a 1967 news conference, summed up the reports of many prisoners when he said: "I have been tortured, I have been beaten, I have been placed in solitary confinement, I have been harassed, I have been humiliated." Navy Lieut. Commander Rodney Knutson struck the same harsh note. "Lenient and humane treatment?" he asked. "Not on your life...
...Vice President Eric Hodgins recalled, this compliment "caused even those among management to utter harsh, humorless laughter." The management structure was altered to give the publishers more autonomy, but it remained "a benevolent and indulgent monarchy," since Luce retained the final say in all major decisions. That began to change in 1960 when, in a reorganization, the founding executives made way for a new president and board chairman. In 1964, Luce himself solved the problem of editorial succession by picking Hedley Donovan to be editor in chief of all Time Inc. publications. It was Donovan, not Luce, who decided that...