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...movies, those shadowy 16-mm. offerings with titles like Lust Cave and Schoolgirls for Sale, have moved out of downtown into your friendly neighborhood theater. One neighborhood that did not take kindly to the progress of prurience was Chicago's Northwest Side. Indeed, the Rockne Theater aroused such ire when it began showing steamies that local matrons picketed in protest last summer...
Rising prices are a greater problem for Ireland than rising ire in Belfast. Inflation hit 10% in 1970, and the rate is still around 8%. Struggling valiantly to keep inflation at bay, the government has expanded existing price controls to cover the service industries. Labor unions, fearful that wage controls would be imposed, reluctantly agreed to accept raises of no more than $5 a week until the end of this year, and then only increases of 4% plus cost of living rises in the first half of 1972. With sound management and reasonable luck, the government will avoid the dramas...
Glinne's ire is focused on the case of tiny, traditionally Catholic Luxembourg. Because of historic church opposition to cremation, Luxembourg has no crematoriums of its own. Until mid-1968, when the Six abolished international customs and substituted a complex system of "taxes on value added" (T.V.A.), this was no great problem; when a Luxembourgeois who believed in cremation died, his family would simply have him taken across the French border to Strasbourg. But under T.V.A., French tax collectors consider cremation a taxable "service rendered to a private person." As a result, they now dun bereaved Luxembourgeois...
...Pretty Maids All in a flow is to make your way through some of the nonsense listed above; it's a terrible price to pay and may not be worth it. But by comparison, Pretty Maids is truly comic relief - a kinky, funny, often on-target sat ire about libidinous teen-agers and their equally eager elders. Director Vadim constantly undercuts himself with the kind of sleazy eroticism (many shots of panties and nubile cleavage) that has made him a cinematic Flo Ziegfeld, but his decidedly black sense of humor has not been so finely honed since he made...
...moves from tavern playboy to patriot King, so Richard moves from self-indulgent fop to martyr. Chamberlain accomplishes this with masterly gradations. His early Richard walks with a kind of saucy flippancy. When he banishes Bolingbroke and Mowbray from the realm, it is not so much with imperial ire as petulant impatience. He has already gained in gravity when he later drops to the ground and fondles the soil of England: "Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hands, Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs...