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...Your article on foods and fads, "The Perils of Eating, American Style" [Dec. 18], showed good coverage in most areas. I resent, however, your treatment of Adelle Davis as a kind of prepackaged witch or ridicule figure...
...team player in the almost obsessive sense that the other Nixon loyalists are. He will, for example, lunch on occasion with a reporter and provide background on the peace negotiations. He has no close friends inside the White House ? and not a few enemies who resent his power and personal style, his dates with beautiful women and access to a larger, more glamorous world. Kissinger's strength in the Administration, so far, has been that he has won the President's confidence and trust, that they enjoy a remarkable professional rapport. Says one high-ranking U.S. diplomat: "The halls...
...stellar Holly Woodlawn performance to hide this fact from us. Somewhat cruel to the audience, yes--Heat has an icy cool sense of moral superiority underlying it, as it is constantly beating us over the heads with caricatures of ourselves while maintaining its own sang froid, and we should resent a movie that makes us bleed without bleeding itself...
...indulging a perfunctory passion. With his companions Cassel and Frankeur, he is also earning a tidy stipend on the side by smuggling cocaine in his inviolate diplomatic briefcase. Their only concern, besides the ambassadors incessant fear of revolutionaries, is "a gang in Marseille," which is beginning to resent the amateur trafficking. In one of the movie's best scenes, gang members break in while all are (of course) seated at dinner and slaughter everyone save Rey, who has taken shelter under the table. He is undone, in an elegantly malicious Bunuel touch, only when his hand reaches stealthily...
...Senate Armed Services Committee, Mississippi has only four military installations and three defense contractors. Nevertheless, the report suggests darkly that Stennis "may be taking the pork back to his economically beleaguered state." Although the report writer eloquently describes the poverty in which many Mississippians live, he seems to resent the fact that HEW and the Department of Agriculture respectively pumped $549,622,946 and $372,261,953 into the state. Would he have preferred that Stennis, who sits on the appropriations committees for both departments, oppose such appropriations for his own state...