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Elsewhere, leaders hardly stayed in place long enough to be in the running as Men of the Year. Governments changed with what seemed a manic rapidity. Israel's Golda Meir left office, replaced by Yitzhak Rabin. Japan's Kakuei Tanaka resigned amid scandal, with Takeo Miki succeeding him. Western Europe seemed beset by Fraktionspolitik. Great Britain deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow...
...recently the worst of times, it now seemed almost the best of times to be a Democrat for the 2,000 delegates who gathered last week in Kansas City for the first mid-term convention of its kind ever held by a U.S. political party. The swing had been manic: from corrosive division and humiliating defeat in 1972 to last month's sweeping triumph in the off-year elections and the reasonable prospect of wresting the White House from Gerald Ford in 1976. And though some of the old intramural conflicts still struck sparks, the downs and ups seemed...
...Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive and try to groom him into a symbol for all of prewar France. There is a subplot involving Trotsky, who had sought asylum in France during that time, and Resnais obviously hoped to suggest that the swindler and the Communist here represent in effect the two political alternatives between...
...well-guarded house trailer. This is no easy matter to begin with, but Ballantine and his five-thumbed cronies make it even harder than necessary. The gang includes a giggly jet-setter, an ex-FBI agent who is Al G. Karp's nephew, a screwy mother and her manic son, and a black safecracker who wants to use his cut of the profits to run for mayor of Anaheim...
...editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail of bulletins issuing from Washington. No news might even last long enough to become boring, though it would be imprudent, given the past decade or so, to count...