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Vulgar Crowds. Despite its manifest disadvantages, Pantelleria has developed something of a tourist trade. Because it has been so ill-favored by nature, it has a tranquillity few other islands in the Mediterranean can boast. In the past several years, wealthy Italians eager to avoid the vulgar crowds at Capri or Amalfi have discovered it. So have moviemakers. Except for the untoward events of World War II, about the only thing of note that has happened in Pantelleria in the past 2,000 years or so was the shooting of a pornographic movie, Thank You, Mrs. P., two summers...
...power manifest, some congressional observers believe, Mills in recent years grew tired of his chairmanship. But even his colleagues were taken aback when, late in 1971, Mills decided to make a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The move proved to be disastrous, and Mills was ignominiously ignored at the 1972 party convention in Miami Beach; some associates date his decline from then. That campaign had other negative fallout...
Olmert senses an emerging rightist swing in Israel and believes that his party stands a strong chance of gaining strength in any new elections. He says that national dissatisfaction with the Rabin government is manifest, and that Likud's hard line is seen as the only realistic approach to the crisis, by increasingly large numbers of Israelis. Aloni denies the existence of this trend. "There is no rightist swing in Israel-the problem is simply that the government is undefined in its position, and indecision by those in power generally tends to aid the opposition; and in Israel, Likud...
Movies like Airport 1975, with their furious mediocrity and their manifest cynicism about their own mediocrity, represent American film making at its shabbiest, most unimaginative, most exploitative. Nothing about Airport 1975 is good; no actor in the cast of dubious luminaries even tries to be. (Besides those already mentioned, Gloria Swanson...
...nations, which often involves lying and distortion. But what I have to say about the military in Catch-22: I don't recall it being characteristic of the military in World War II. It was characteristing of the military during the Korean War, during the Cold, War, and became manifest during the Vietnam War. It was just a perversion of all codes of honor that are being taught at Annapolis or in American military justice. Misuse of the FBI, the CIA, misuse of the courts, the attorney-general's office, and so forth. Political persecutions. Indictments would be started, trials...