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AMARCORD ["I Remember"] is Fellini's most ingratiating film so far--the return to scenes of his childhood near Rimini on Italy's Adriatic coast seems to have mellowed him. His fascisti are Verdi caricatures who can be deflated by a phonograph blaring out the Internationale from the bell tower...
The first thing one noticed upon entering Santiago in March 1972 was the omnipresent political graffiti. It was as if every vertical space had grown its own slogan. The walls sliding by the bus window called out in a din of dripping reds and scrawled yellows "A People United Cannot...
As the men near the mine face, visibility diminishes, and the air thickens with black dust. The miners begin to clear their throats and spit. The area around the mine face looks like a small construction site, with piles of boards, bolts, rails, ties and electrical power equipment. The wires...
In preparing that blueprint, all week long the White House's economic team, headed by Treasury Secretary William Simon and Presidential Adviser L. William Seidman, sifted piles of option papers streaming in from a dozen departments and agencies. They also studied loose-leaf notebooks fat with suggestions that came out...
"in my day the two neighborhoods were some distance apart. You had to wind through alley after alley, see many windows and many faces pass through so much life--in order to get from one to the other. Now, among these empty, intersecting streets, one stride seems enough; all the...