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Wertmuller fashions the film so that even the paradoxes double back on each other. Pasqualino is a murderer and rap ist. But he is a rogue, too, winning be cause of his shabby, transparent charm...
...they seem to be regularly in thrillers and less often in real life. The details are not especially interesting, but one bit of irony is worth mentioning. A terrorist, Selim, is found dead. Did he commit suicide to avoid capture? Certainly not, his English adversary concludes; no terror ist has ever been held for longer than eight months in a European jail. Why die when...
...years in exile, he was unable to reconcile the smoldering class differences that have brought the nation of 24 million to new civil chaos. While retaining some of his old flair, Perón seemed to lack his old ruthlessness. He hesitated to take strong action against the terror ist leftist guerrillas, whose kidnapings of businessmen had frightened away foreign investors. He wisely imposed a tough "social pact," an agreement between employers and workers that amounted to a wage-price freeze, momentarily reducing inflation from 80% to 30% annually, but then gave in to demands for enormous wage hikes by journalists...
Katharine Anne Porter, L.H.D., novel ist (Ship of Fools...
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Eric Sevareid, Mass Comm. D., journal ist and television commentator...