Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration, the diplomatic challenge is to balance what Moscow is certain to see as the inherently anti-Soviet nature of the visit. Thus, Carter was careful to note in his State of the Union message that the new U.S. relationship with China "is not directed against the interests of any other country," and that he would like "to welcome President Brezhnev to our country in the near future." U.S. officials are hoping that Teng, having aimed a heavy salvo at Moscow in his TIME interview, will hold his fire while on American soil. As one State Department observer...
...admixed with desire: desire, the force of the gyre spinning Malone and Sutherland and their coterie, binding them to the center till it scatters them like a merry-go round gone haywire; desire, the lesser mythology in the absence of religion, that turns the X's on a suicide note from crosses to kisses, and a night at Les Mouches to the Beatific Vision; desire, that which makes them dance...
...system he's been enforcing. As Collins tries to work his way back up to his old status, his coldness takes on a different dimension--it's him against you, and neither party can afford to lose. Dalen manages to pull off this shift without a false note, and it's pretty impressive...
...gone before. Dalen so successfully blurs the distinction between the consumer and the seller (something else) that the disquieting aspects of his film just can't get lost. The happy ending elates for a moment but then in light of the rest of the film it's a bogus note. But aside from this, this is an unnerving little film, a very fine first feature which does more than simply show promise. The few flaws are annoying but not fatal. Dalen and his crew would be better off in the future not to go for the upbeat ending...
When the Coast Guard gets a break, it is often by chance: Coast Guardsmen had boarded one mother ship last July when a smuggler's plane, unaware of the seizure, flew over and dropped a note giving directions for a rendezvous with a cabin cruiser. The officers dressed up as deck hands, kept the appointment with the yacht, sold three 80-lb. bales of grass, and then arrested the American buyers. For each such capture, the Coast Guard cutter gets to display a marijuana leaf on its hull...