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...world has turned: the new movie version of Lolita is at this moment playing without any particular controversy in Moscow, former capital of hopelessly square Soviet socialist morality. After something like a year of relentless salesmanship, producers of Adrian Lyne's near reverent (but by no means inept or exploitative) adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's modernist classic has yet to find a theatrical distributor in the U.S., where, of course, morally ambivalent entanglements between older men and younger women have lately been hot news...
...subsidized apartments were consistently rated among the country's worst. One of its biggest projects, an 1,800-unit catastrophe called Desire, was long reputed to be the very worst. The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), a political hornet's nest of patronage and chronic mismanagement, was so inept at making repairs that tenants routinely waited years for simple services. Hundreds of tenements were literally falling down...
...report, dated Jan. 26, 1998, and covering the fiscal quarter ending in September 1997, shows only $702,000 left in union coffers. Insiders say Teamsters headquarters faces large-scale layoffs within the next week or two. Those layoffs and the as-yet-unpaid bills for the government's inept efforts to clean up the union are likely to further cripple the union, which was once the giant of labor...
Your Man-of-the-Year winners have ranged from the patently inept (Wallis Warfield Simpson, 1936) to the truly inspired (Martin Luther King Jr., '63). As has happened many times before in this century, science has provided the stage and a worthy player has claimed a starring role. Grove clearly merits notice for his drive, intelligence and that most American element, luck. HARRY PUNCEC Lakewood, Colo...
Fresh from its botched keystone-kops hit on a Hamas leader in Jordan, the Mossad, Israel's vaunted spy agency, finds itself again looking inept. It turns out that a veteran agent of the organization has long been fabricating intelligence reports that have led the Mossad to take a hawkish view of Syria's military intentions and capabilities. The agent, who is under investigation, claimed he based his reports on the information of a key source, a non-Arab closely tied to the inner circle in Damascus. Israeli officials now say the agent, briefly a right-wing political activist...