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...problems. No one but he seems to understand the relevance of the Dreyfus Affair to the situation of the Jews in Poland. The actor playing Dreyfus doesn't feel adequate to play his role. The other actors all want bigger parts, and a few song and dance routines to lighten up the story...
...world and domestic economic problems may dictate a change in foreign policy emphasis that also could lighten the Kissinger brand on foreign affairs. So far during this decade, United States foreign policy has been highlighted by moves to establish detente with China and the Soviet Union and efforts to cool-off the Mid East hothouse. But the current economic situation seems to necessitate more emphasis on relations with Japan and Europe. Diplomacy with these countries are not susceptible to dramatic moves and quick back and forth shuttles with offer and counter-offer that have come to characterize Kissinger's style...
...price drop would lighten the burden on the oil-importing nations, which this year face the prospect of spending $ 100 billion for foreign petroleum, a fivefold jump since 1972. But as Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani stressed, compassion had little to do with the Saudi drive to lower prices. The Saudis, he said, want to avoid a "worldwide recession because that will hurt us," and to prevent rising unemployment and inflation from strengthening "the leftists in the major industrial nations." Moreover, Yamani warned, economic weaknesses in the West could shift the balance of power in favor...
...higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb down into this commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early morning sky begins to lighten, the quarter is slowly transformed from sleepy urban streets into a carnival-like marketplace of relentless color and activity...
...suggests. For himself, Boorman borrows -and cunningly acknowledges-a crucial image from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The trouble is that none of these sources is assimilated; they are like footnotes without a source. Fortunately there are some bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material...