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So is the viewer. Author John Fowles, adapting his open-end puzzle of a book, cuts away much of its elegance; but he retains the oscillation between illusion and reality and maintains the mystery to the final frame. Director Guy Green wastes footage on tepid erotic interludes, and some of...
Francis Russell, historian of Sacco and Vanzetti (Tragedy in Dedham), keeps his camera circling the 29th President of the United States and sometimes almost creates the illusion the body is twitching with life. Manfully he rates Harding as "an astute and able Ohio politician" and "above all, a kindly man...
Negatives--A ponderous and pretentious excursion into illusion-reality land, starring three ugly people, one of whom was much better in "Marat-Sade" and featuring a soundtrack consisting almost entirely of ominous clicking, gratuitous screaming, and much too much crumpling of polyethelyne. This way madness lies. At the CHARLES CINEMA...
The truth was probably more the latter than the former. In fact, the conference drew almost exclusively on the much-maligned "liberal establishment." In a closing attack Sam Brown, a former Harvard Divinity student, seized on this as a major failing of the conference. Before he spoke a few lonely...
But the decision to grant massive wage increases, without applying pressure on French businessmen sufficient to keep prices reasonably stable, was political cowardice. The French government should have taken the steps necessary to insure that an increase in wages would result in a roughly equal increase in real income to...