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...mother is utterly unable to assume a mother's role: she is beautiful, young, and childlike, a capricious Italian woman who married at 16 and who has never quite learnt the ways of the French. The comfortable amorality of upper-middle-class Dijon in 1954 also serves to lighten the mood of the film. The Chevalier home is a place of hard-working servants, white tablecloths, and wine-filled crystal; original paintings are on the walls, the Tour de France on the radio, and Maurice Chevalier on T.V. Laurent's older brothers amuse themselves through slapstick fights with the servants...
...African cultures, be so dependent on the white man's academic jargon and propaganda techniques? Their dead weight has a consistently bad effect on the otherwise vital and aggressive street style of many of the essays and manifestoes contained in Raise Race, etc. Sometimes he attempts to lighten the load by adding asides-"if you can dig that," after phrases like "we hate as of a legitimate empirical reaction." The result is an embarrassing self-consciousness. Yet self-consciousness is what at this stage Jones' Black Power mission is really all about. "We are self-conscious...
...Last Sunday the group led off with Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man from Galilee. Then, in bluesy, three-quarter time, the group did The Angels Rejoiced When My Soul Made a Choice. Finally, Rex himself, clear-eyed, square-jawed and steadfastly ingenuous, came on to lighten the tempo, strumming his guitar and singing I Just Steal Away and I Pray...
...A.M.A. find out about it." The A.M.A. already knows. Once little more than a figment of the science-fiction writer's imagination, mechanized medicine has become a reality that reaches far beyond electrocardiographs and electroencephalographs. Physicians are turning increasingly to electronics in their efforts to lighten their labors and increase their powers of observation and analysis. In the process, the very nature of medical practice is changing...
Seagrams has brought forth a new light entry of its own. The company recalled its Four Roses brand, increased the neutral spirit content to lighten its flavor, renamed it Four Roses Premium, added 10? to 15? to the price and introduced it with a splashy promotion campaign two weeks ago. To speed consumer acceptance, Seagrams salesmen have been passing out free samples of the new drink to key customers of local dealers. The company's ads have already drawn federal attention. One message reads: "We can offer a product right now that can't be equalled a year...