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...Poseidon's passenger list is a manifest of stereotypes, her cargo clichés. The hero is Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman), a sort of seagoing Malcolm Boyd who exhorts his shipboard congregation to "have the guts to fight for yourself-God loves brave souls." Also among the survivors are a beefy cop (Ernest Borgnine) and his new wife, a reformed whore (Stella Stevens); a teen-age girl (Pamela Sue Martin) and her obnoxious little brother (Eric Shea); an aging Jewish couple (Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson) en route to the holy land; a timid haberdasher (Red Buttons...
...have finally come true, the way a stopped clock is right twice a day. She is a leading modernist critic, Barbara Rose, and her strictures would not have been made in the '60s, when American art seemed to inhabit an endless summer. Then New York believed in its manifest destiny; it had become the new Paris, or even Imperial Rome. The "mainstream" ran through New York. And it seemed by mid-decade that virtually everyone with something to invest was blundering about in its turbid flood like a shark, snapping up artworks. The culmination of this process was "Henry...
...toward nationalism. Country after country is imposing or contemplating restrictions on the American investment that it was once pleased to get. Generally, the measures are aimed against certain types of investment, not against all U.S. capital-a policy of "Some Yankees Go Home." Among the places where it is manifest...
...revolt (TIME, May 22). Ever since, it has been attempting to destroy the Hutu to such an extent that they may never rise again. "The Tutsi fear has always been the same-to smash the Hutu or die," explains a foreign missionary. "But it has never been so manifest before...
...political power. If McGovern becomes President, he will do so because he has the support of a different group of people from those who would back a traditional, "old" political candidate who would be, after all, financed heavily and supported by the old political machines. The change would manifest itself in at least two ways. The first is the general area of business-Government relations-for example, the ITT case. It would not be possible under McGovern-and perhaps not even under Nixon in the future-for a corporation to work out its problems with the Government behind the scenes...