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...declassified in 20 years, instead of 30 years. The National Archives estimates that as a result the number of once-classified federal documents that will be disgorged in the next decade will increase by 250 million pages, to a total of 600 million pages. Most of them, however, pertain to routine bureaucratic matters and will be of little interest to historians...
While few clues as to the papers' exact contents were immediately discernable, it was clear that the bulk of the documents did pertain to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
Some of those defects pertain to structure and language, but Equus' main drawback is its philosophical thrust. Like so many other trendy writers, from R.D. Laing to Ken Kesey, Shaffer wonders whether madness may be a greater virtue than sanity in a sterile modern world. In Equus, madness is personified by Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a pretty, blond youth whose sexual desire for horses drives him to blind them; sanity takes the form of Dysart (Richard Burton), a repressed psychiatrist charged with curing Alan of his antisocial passion. In this confrontation between a virile equussexual and an impotent prune...
...been a little discomfited at having to play the lead in his own eulogy. Siegel starts The Shootist off with film clips to show Books in action over the years. The scenes, of course, are from previous Wayne vehicles. Some are of rather recent vintage, others antique, but they pertain much more directly to the star himself than to the character he is playing. Also, it is common knowledge that Wayne had his own bout with cancer - his testament that "I licked the Big C with the love of God and a lot of guts" is as well known...
...cursory perusal of the available date would indicate, figures which aggregate farm profits for the entire nation are extremely unreliable because of the large number of small poor farmers, particularly in the South. The following figures are more relevant to any discussion of the UFW's claims because they pertain to that sector of the market that employs large number of farm laborers. California Department of Food and Agriculture figures show in 1973, farm income in that state was a record $77 billion, up 32 per cent over the 1972 figure of $5.8 billion. Bureau of the Census figures...