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...watching Ullmann do it, we realize how few have done it well. Hers is an intelligent, devastating performance. Ullmann's little smile of unsettled wellbeing, the desperation and desolation of her hysteria, are achieved by applying the most basic and most difficult concept in acting: abandonment and restraint. She reconciles the paradox flawlessly, as only great actors and actresses...
Citizens now have some measure of protection against unsolicited sex mail. Anyone who does not want such mail can notify postal authorities. Other kinds of restraint may be possible. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang: "There ought to be a way to limit pornography to those who want it." Still, Wolfgang, a member of the obscenity and pornography commission, opposes all obscenity laws, including those limiting public display of erotica. Others think such laws are reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should...
...left as he watched Tory policies lead to a confrontation with the unions that nearly paralyzed the country. In his election campaign of 1974 he promised to restore labor peace with a "social contract" providing for a sharp increase in pensions and food and housing subsidies in return for restraint on wage demands. He won the election but soon learned that restraint was out of the question. Social contract or no, the unions forced up wages. Faced with a 23.4% inflation rate, the highest in Europe, Wilson last year imposed a stringent ceiling on wage hikes; last month he tightened...
...only about three-fifths of the book, ending with Nixon's 1972 inauguration. It is emphatically not The Front Page; there is no shouting about stopping the presses, no pulling phones out of walls. The word scoop is not used once, and that perhaps best suggests the film's restraint...
...rescue operations have reduced Italy's foreign-exchange reserves to less than $1 billion, while the nation has $15.5 billion outstanding in foreign loans, many of them coming due soon. The U.S. and the European Economic Community are insisting on tough anti-inflationary policies, including wage restraint, as a precondition for granting more credit. The Italian government fears that unpopular austerity is hardly the way to stave off Communist ambitions to participate in the government...