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...company remains essentially a tightly knit family affair. The heirs of Walt and Roy O. Disney (who died in 1971) retain the largest single block of the stock. President Walker, 57, and Chairman Donn B. Tatum, 60, both joined the Disney brothers in the '30s; Executive Producer Ronald W. Miller is Walt's son-in-law, and Roy Disney's son Roy E. Disney heads T.V. projects...
...with reasonable compensation to Mr. Nixon for his private investment, subsequent to his tenure as President. This nation, sprawling geographically and culturally as it does, needs a Western White House to let the people of that section feel a closeness to the Federal Government. However, for Mr. Nixon to retain the premises following his presidency would seem, at best, unethical...
...RESTRICTED by social pressure, the "savage journey" accelerates downward, focussing Duke's attentions on a degraded physical level. Eating, drinking, and fouling like the rest, he somehow manages to retain a shred of self-respect. It alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze...
Despite Geisel's military sternness, some Brazilians feel that he is the best of an unavoidable lot. They base their feelings mainly on his past performance. In 1966, for example, Geisel was a leader of a movement within the military to retain the Congress, when other generals demanded its dissolution; the following year he was instrumental in pushing through a constitutional amendment that formally retained the Congress (though it was stripped of power). "Geisel has a military appearance but a civilian mind," says an editor in Sāo Paulo. "With Médici it was the other...
...that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs. Yet in its way, the Avignon show may perform some service to Picasso's reputation. It is hard to see it and retain as workable the myth that everything he painted was touched with genius, and of importance. Unlike Titian or Michelangelo, Picasso failed in old age. To perceive this is to be freed, to some extent, of the hagiographic icing that still obscures him. But it does not reduce the dimensions...