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...willing to bet on it, and therefore to welcome the growing West German power. "What disturbs us is to have a power vacuum in Western Europe," says Italian Author Luigi Barzini, one of the Continent's shrewdest pundits. "It's as if this were a circus without a lion tamer. That is dangerous. So, by and large, we would not be terribly disturbed if the tamer were West Germany...
...made huge investments in Israel and to have solicited funds for the Israeli army, which the prosecution claimed made him an accomplice "in murderous air raids against innocent Palestinians." Witnesses against Khorram charged that he supplied prostitutes for the Shah's officials, once fed a man to a lion in his amusement park, and kept a secret morgue for the bodies of his enemies...
...opening day, Talmadge led off by delivering an angrily worded statement. With the air of a wounded lion determined to fight off encircling vultures, Talmadge denounced Minchew as "a proven liar, cheat and embezzler." Minchew has admitted receiving money from the bank account, but claimed he was simply being reimbursed for money he spent-for the Senator. Talmadge said that if he had committed the offenses he was accused of, he would be dimwitted, and the Senator added: "Even my enemies don't claim that I'm that stupid...
...unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back and says lovingly to poor, scoldy Alceste, "How boring you are!" while deliciously wriggling her toes, the night belongs to France. Molière and the audience are best served by Comédie Veteran Michel Duchaussoy as Alceste's best friend, Philinte. He speaks his verse, perfectly balancing...
Rather commented on the trend towards blandness in television reporting. Stations decide to broadcast good news saying "let's not deal with people dying in Southeast Asia but say that the Lion's Club had a meeting and sang the national anthem...