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...that never shows up in his dealings with people. While I was interviewing him on election day, he stopped and inquired if anyone wanted some lunch. There were aides around to do it, but McGovern without hesitation started taking orders. "A hamburger? How do you want it? Ketchup? Mustard...
...Dominique Sanda. It is also meaningfully ridden with guilt and melancholy. Filmmaker Bernardo Bertollucci--once a Godard acolyte--here encloses himself in circular storytelling and claustrophobic environment. A repressed homosexual (Jean-Louis Trintignant) turns to Fascism to become one of the boys, can't cut the mustard even then, and finally returns to simpering solitude when Mussolini falls. The film examines the paths decadence travels in a decrepit society: note that the liberal professor whom Trintignant reveres fled Italy when his student most needed him, and--with the comic tone of a benign cuckold--tolerates wife Sanda's lesbianism. Bertollucci...
...Bangla! Jai Bangla!" From the banks of the great Ganges and the broad Brahmaputra, from the emerald rice fields and mustard-colored hills of the countryside, from the countless squares of countless villages came the cry. "Victory to Bengal! Victory to Bengal!" They danced on the roofs of buses and marched down city streets singing their anthem Golden Bengal. They brought the green, red and gold banner of Bengal out of secret hiding places to flutter freely from buildings, while huge pictures of their imprisoned leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, sprang up overnight on trucks, houses and signposts. As Indian troops...
...spotting overseas investment opportunities for French industry and preventing foreign takeovers of French companies; it is composed of four men, all under 40, including the personal assistants of Pompidou and Giscard. Known as the "Four Musketeers," the men have succeeded in denying the Heinz Co. control in Grey-Poupon mustard and in getting Ugine-Pechiney to invest in New Caledonian nickel facilities, thereby countering an expansion move by International Nickel...
HAITI Pooh-Bah By invitation of the President, about 30 young Haitians leaped astride their yammering motorcycles one recent Sunday afternoon and raced wildly up and down the broad avenues beside the gleaming white national palace and the mustard-yellow army barracks in the center of Port-au-Prince. Afterward, President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier happily shook hands all around and basked in the cheers of 15,000 spectators, who were clearly enjoying an event that would have been unimaginable in the days of his father, the late Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...