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...this light, is that at least ten Boston people plan to work full-time for Ananda Marga this summer, and many plan brief trips to India. Wendy Jenner, a 3rd year student at Northeastern who plans to work full-time, says that she "earlier doubted that this rather inept group of people could really do much. But now the prospect and responsibility of full-time work have catalyzed in me a new sense of purpose, of reality: that Ananda Marga here is no longer just a 'socializing-spiritual' thing but a live work group, something that can do what...
Wary Attitude. "Don't put up roadblocks for us," Allende told TIME. "The worst thing would be if we were to fail not because we are inept but because artificial roadblocks are put in our way. If that were to happen, the people of Latin America would have no recourse but violence. If so, the day will come-not that I want it to-when no North American will be able to set foot safely in South America. This is the great political responsibility...
...Peace, Bondarchuk found himself at home with war and inept with peace. In Waterloo, he again directs less than he deploys. Psychological insight is conveyed by closeups of the stars' eyes, interminable crosscuts from the Duke of Wellington to Napoleon Bonaparte and fatuous "voiceover" soliloquies, like Napoleon's: "This Englishman has two qualities that I admire-caution, and above all courage...
Crossed Wires. At present, U.S. energy policy is a mix of uncoordinated, sometimes conflicting and occasionally inept programs carried out by half a dozen highly independent agencies. By administering oil import quotas, the Interior Department, for example, helps to keep domestic oil prices high; the Federal Power Commission tries to protect consumers by keeping natural gas prices low. The unintended result has been to discourage exploration for gas, a relatively nonpolluting fuel, because it is only one-third as profitable as oil when it is pumped out of the ground...
...Carter is a doggedly nasty piece of business made in blatant but inept imitation of Point Blank. While the violence in Point Blank defines some surreal and chilling points about the savagery of contemporary urban life, the mayhem in Get Carter is a gruesome and almost pornographic visual obsession. Fledgling DirectorMike Hodges clearly hoped to put together a jazzy paean to the classic detective story; the film's protagonist, in fact, is shown in a couple of scenes poring over a copy of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely. But Hodges seems to have learned more from Mickey...