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...future Scotsman" is a fairly fantastic bucko named Jack, who believed himself to be an Irishman until he was 20 and played the part to the Abbey Theater hilt. Though he grew to only 60⅜ inches and had to dye his hair red, Jack strutted through life indulging in "imitation Irish ultimating" (like his 6 ft. 3 in. father), gloriously using the world as his straight man. "An Irishman," Jack concludes, looking back to lost innocence, "can get by with things another...
...other (and the only satire with any bite) is a runaway mix of The King and I and Chinese Revolutionary Opera called "The People's Opera Glorifying Revolutionary Heroes One-Eyed Jack and Toronto." With Red Flags and posters of Mao, it plays the stereotypes to the hilt, and with saving grace, perceptibly manages to suggest that Nixon and Kissinger were conned like a bunch of yokels last year by the ceremonious hoo-hah of their Chinese hosts...
...scriptures muddled Raymond Chandler's impeccable crafted lines of action, this film is as much fun as anything Bogart starred in. He's a more glib and humorous hard-boiled dick than Chandler's Philip Marfowe, but the entire film is played for laughs--and played to the hilt by Lauren Bacall and Elisha Cook, among others...
Juan Perón, home in Buenos Aires after 17 years in exile, was playing the game of elder statesman to the hilt. For a time last week it appeared that he had convinced many of Argentina's major political parties to join with him in forging an unbeatable coalition for the general elections next March. But the coalition came apart almost as quickly as it had been formed, and there were rumblings of even more difficult times to come for el Lider. As one diplomatic observer put it: "Perón thought he could absorb Argentina; instead, Argentina...
...only credit the genuine concern for justice and due process demonstrated by Bok and Steiner. But we abhor the fact that Popkin goes free only when the government sees fit to dismiss a grand jury which it had milked to the hilt...