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Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles...
One of those peacemaking things, he stressed, would be for the Soviets to agree to progress on the long-stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Carter did not want the Kremlin to think the U.S. would settle for less than a substantial, comprehensive arms limitation deal. "Our view," he cautioned, "is...
Finally last week, in an effort to confound his enemies and reinforce his own political position, Prime Minister Ian Smith announced a move that would inevitably delay, if not scuttle whatever chances existed for a negotiated settlement: he called a snap general election the first in three years, to be...
The spot turns out to be a street in Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor, with Manhattan as a cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree...
When Revel's book was first published in France last year, many outraged intellectuals accused him of reviving the cold war. To Revel, a man of the non-Communist left, that accusation is a radical illusion; the war has never ceased. Stalinism, he insists, is no aberration, but the...