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...policy. Industry Minister André Giraud immediately took action to cancel the oil contract with Libya. Foreign Ministry officials were dispatched from Paris to reassure other French-speaking nations such as Niger, Senegal and the Ivory Coast that France was prepared to bolster their defenses. Said French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet: "France will, as it always has, stand by its African friends to defend their security...
Such theories are neither new nor revolutionary. The forefather of today's supply-siders was the 19th century Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Say, who enunciated one of the earliest-and most hotly disputed-laws of economics: supply creates its own demand. John F. Kennedy practiced a form of supply-side economics in the early 1960s with measures like the investment tax credit to stimulate business expansion. No less a Keynesian than John Maynard Keynes himself anticipated the supply-siders' stress on incentives to production by writing: "I believe you have first of all to do something to restore profits...
...Laborit is the real star of Resnais' controversial new film, Mon Oncle D'Amerique. The script, by the esteemed Jean Gruault, centers on the good doctor's theories on human nature and Laborit himself is on hand to comment on the story of three people whose inter-connected lives demonstrate just how accurate Laborit's conclusions are. If you still cling to the belief that man is a superior and complex creature whose existence can never be fathomed, Laborit will probably convince you that man is nothing more than an extremely intelligent rodent--with neuroses. Resnais and Gruault...
...banality. Cleverness is Mon Oncle's dominant characteristic, but in cinema--as in any other art form--excessive cleverness can be deadly annoying. Resnais' and Gruault's three main characters serve as mere puppets of Laborit. Early in the film, we race through the childhoods and adolescences of Jean, Janine, and Rene, learning quickly and concisely all the important biographical details. Sure it's interesting that they all had long solitary periods in their childhoods, or that their parents didn't understand them, or that they like to imagine themselves as their favorite film actors, or that all three...
Given the peculiarity of portraying neurotic tools, the three lead actors deliver uniformly fine performances. As Jean, the social-climbing, "wandering intellectual", Roger-Pierre--a paunchy, fifty-ish Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon...