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...Outworn Welcome. The P.R.G.'s decision to get rid of foreign newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...
...level (a couple of greedy cowpokes named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like Charlene Dallas) exploited...
...Outworn stratagems underpinned the Faculty's affirmation of the present CRR: the Faculty best knows how to protect teaching and research institutions [Samuel Beer]; the rights of the Faculty to teach and to do research are jeopardized by students [James Q. Wilson]; the Faculty has been double-crossed by students before and must protect itself [Beer...
...unthinking others. Aside from that of Charles Thomas Samuels, the film writing Rahv has published has been obtuse: theater is totally absent, television not even acknowledged. Serious literary tricksters (Barth, Gass and Barthelme) who are trying to engage in their own kind of criticism of our language and outworn genres, are barely acknowledged...
...that the outworn tactics of a violent fringe made the Republicans' doors appear open to the American public. And through those doors they viewed the first vestiges of Richard Nixon's reelection campaign. Just as in 1968, he has gone on the offensive, pandering to carefully chosen audiences, manipulating the media, revitalizing his image, and perhaps, winning over the American people.Democrates hailed by Republicans? Senators JACKSON. (above). HUMPHREY (RIGHT) and MUSKIE heard it themselves...