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...become too difficult for a poor man to run for President and too easy for moneyed citizens to buy influence among the presidential candidates whom they support. In December 1971 Congress passed a simple rider to the Revenue Act that, while not solving all the problems, could at least provide candidates with the funds to launch a campaign without pressure from private backers. Under the bill, each taxpayer can now direct the Government to send $1 of his taxes to a presidential campaign fund-at no cost to himself-by making a simple check mark on his tax forms, indicating...
...Great Insurance Policy in the Sky which helps you "lay away" something for college when you are 16, for medical school when you are 18, for marriage when you are 20, for retirement when you are 25 (with a pre-natal clause for nursery school and a rider which will help those who really care about the future plan their own funerals...
...hesitate when a fellow huntsman tumbled off his horse. "Leave the horse to me!" she shouted, then overtook the runaway on her own bay gelding, swung low in the saddle and grabbed the horse's reins to bring it to a halt. Later in the Cheshire Hunt, another rider fell: "The princess jumped over me and went straight after the horse," the fallen rider recalled. "She did very well to catch him. Afterward she said to me, 'You were very lucky. I nearly landed...
...Clown's Evening, Bergman's first masterpiece, sums up attitudes Bergman had suggested in his films of the preceding three years. During the course of a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each betray the other. Albert tries to return to the wife he had left long ago. Anne, partly in retaliation, has a pitiful affair with a condescending actor. Both are rejected in these attempts to escape the circus life, and, after still further torment, the day ends with the pair together again, walking...
...rest is a windy literary turn. He sketches the history of Gilles de Rais, the 15th century French child murderer, who was not a vampire. He gives a gloss of Rider Haggard's She, which is not about vampires, and a 20-page summary of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which is. It is here that the single idea of Wolfs book is developed. This is the notion that the force of Stoker's novel derives from the sensual repressions of the Victorian Age. Of course he is correct. The fantasy of a tall intruder...