Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more lyrical than his later work, less self-conscious, and more romantic, The Spider's Strategem is a film of a kind Bertolucci is unlikely to make again. Structured around Jorge Luis Borges's little story "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," it is a film of limited ambitions shot with remarkable sensitivity and control. Its limit is a lack which might not be noticed except in comparison with the political and psychological ponderings of Bertolucci's other films, a moral core which is absent because of the source chosen. Borges's stories are self-admitted "plots...
Even without new reforms, suggested Rollings, Congress already has the capacity to do all these things. "There is no education in the second kick of a mule," he said. "All we need is to have the House set the limit, and the Senate will follow that discipline, and then we can call the President into line. I have seen that power exercised by the House. I have seen it exercised within the Senate. In the words of Walt Kelly's Pogo, 'We met the enemy...
Nixon, moreover, is acting in a dramatically altered political environment. Until recent years, an increase in presidential power was widely applauded. Since the Viet Nam War, however, presidential power has come under a cloud and many want to limit it. This adds to the consternation over Nixon's impounding. As Jackson pointed out: "Any actual test of power is likely to depend on the imperatives of events and contemporary imponderables rather than on abstract theories of law." For this reason, constitutional authorities would prefer that the issue be ajudicated not in the courts but in the rough and tumble...
...Zone treaty from the U.S. Last month, Panama's U.N. Ambassador Aquilino Boyd labeled the zone "a colonialist enclave," and charged that the U.S. had made it a "hotbed of international tension." Other Latin American countries are expected to press for international acceptance of a 200-mile offshore limit for a coastal nation's fishing rights- a move hotly opposed by the U.S. Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Colombia will undoubtedly lobby for a formal statement deploring the exploitation of the continent's natural resources by U.S. firms...
...around his neck and African trading beads around his wrist. He carries a leather shoulder bag and has a house near San Francisco that is decorated with animals, tropical fish and a delectable girl friend. Galliani sends the usual flowers and small gifts to radio-station employees (the bag limit is $25 by FCC law), procures the usual concert tickets and arranges the usual listener contests for trips to Hawaii with Elvis, or whatever. But he has been known to branch out from there. He once sent out tape cassettes containing "personalized" obscene telephone calls to several female radio-station...