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...Tango look like tiddlywinks. The new picture is a year late, $5 million over budget, and-with a running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from a series of psychosomatic ills that he calls "the 1900 syndrome...
...group: "If no resources are provided to assist children, the new rights do them no good." She argues that "the juvenile justice system has become an uncaring machine. It desperately needs more money, more people and more thought so that the long-term needs of young people can be paramount again." Experiments like the San Francisco clinic are effective challenges to indifference,.she concludes: "I hope there will soon be Carole Brills in every city in the country...
...mind with headlines that drip with gore and gush. Did you know that the Russians may have been behind the recent "cold wave" which paralyzed half of the U.S.? That a C.I.A. clerical error cost President Kennedy his life? Or that Toni Tennille, who is apparently a "singer" of paramount ability, attributes her "success" to fate...
Feldman said that Judaism places paramount inportance in the desires and preferences of the woman, making it the husband's obligation to satisfy them. "The Bible even supplies a graduated scale for quality and frequency according to occupation, health, and age," he said...
These problems can be tackled only by an effective internal and inter-area cooperation. Their very nature dictates the substantive change that should take place in our ways of thinking so that we can be able to tackle these kinds of problems, which will assume paramount importance for the coming generation. So, as we dedicate our efforts to complete the process of national liberation, the ending of colonialism and the building of a stable and just international system, we have to direct our efforts to the new challenge that lies ahead...