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Eighteen years ago, in 8½ Federico Fellini confessed that he was a director who had nothing to say, and despite the arresting imagery with which he made his mea culpa, one was more than willing to concede the point. In the next seven films he demonstrated it with ever more empty extravagance. Now, confronting this gaudily misanthropic survey of how feminism has tipped the balance of power in the war between the sexes, one finds that one has moved beyond outrage and impatience to simple weariness...
Then last week, in an extraordinary front-page mea culpa, the New York Times set about refurbishing Kerry's reputation. Headlined "New Evidence Backs Ex-Envoy on His Role in Chile," a 2,300-word article by former Times Investigative Ace Seymour Hersh, who still does occasional freelance pieces for the paper, reported that although attempts had been made by the CIA to engineer a military takeover in Chile, "none of this, it is now evident, was known to Ambassador Korry." What the Times failed to mention was that the writer who was clearing Kerry's name...
...statement: "Not hindered by Jane Fonda-like ecology zeal ots, the Soviet Union is moving ahead on nuclear energy." The antinuclear move ment in our own country is not Jane Fonda. It is a broad-based coalition of people who fear irreparable harm to the environment and the totalitarian mea sures that would certainly have to be taken to ensure security - if that is pos sible - in a nuclear world...
...Mea Non Culpa...
...caucuses, NBC Correspondent Tom Pettit pronounced Ronald Reagan politically "dead." New Hampshire was easier but still vexing. Morton Kondracke of the New Republic boldly predicted that Bush would win by six percentage points and Jimmy Carter by 20. When Reagan won and Edward Kennedy came close, Kondracke offered a mea culpa: "I confess to having contracted hubris by calling the Republican race in Iowa almost exactly. But I am better now. I promise not to do it again, at least without hedging more carefully." The press was again caught off guard by John Anderson's strength in Massachusetts...