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...capital, he learns that the chiefs pidgin-speaking "bush wife," who had once appeared to Odili as "the acme of sophistication" in a white sun helmet, is now seen as a hopeless hick who can't get the hang of English or even much pidgin and is unable to make the cultural struggle into a girdle. She is about to be supplemented by a "parlor wife." Odili, a man of many resources, wants this luscious literate for himself, despite the "bride price" being negotiated for her back home in the village by his patron, the gallant and ever-jovial...
...were still flying-notably American and Pan Am -were having their own troubles. Though they have done all they can to pick up strike-caused traffic, they are embarrassed by the fact that many potential passengers call their ticket offices, get busy signals, and assuming that the situation is hopeless, give up. American, which has had some flights depart with unfilled seats, ran ads last week trying to smooth over the situation. "Come out to the American terminal at the airport," the ads urged. "If the flight you want is all booked up, there's a pretty good chance...
...recurrent motif of the Prague cinemakers is the plight of the dogged individualist who bombards society with question marks, and usually receives "Oh" for an answer. Black Peter, Forman's first feature film, is a droll defense of an aimless Czech teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year-old Director Pavel Juráček, the protagonist borrows a cat from a pet shop and is entangled in a bleak, Kafkaesque nightmare while trying to return it. Painting...
...serious fallacies of Administration policy is the belief that bombing raids will drive the N.L.F. to negotiation. If the Soviet Union were dropping bombs on our oil reserves around New York City, we would fight to the last man, however hopeless the battle, before making concessions to our enemy. It seems foolhardy not to assume equal determination in the North Vietnamese...
Something can be done about arthritis. The major forms of it cannot be cured, but, with the knowledge we now have, more serious disability can be prevented in most cases. Moreover, with modern rehabilitative technology, severely crippled patients can be returned to meaningful activity. No case is hopeless...