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Doctors are butchers. Hospitals are abattoirs. Patients are lucky to get away with their lives, never mind their good health. These are more or less the notions behind these two films, both of which purport to be comedies. The medical profession is eminently ripe for a good dissection, but the satire is laid on here with all the clumsiness of an intern at his first operation...
This film represents Twiggy's acting debut and, except for a brief turn in a TV commercial a few years back, her first professional singing and dancing. With plans for further film musicals already under way, it seems she is fully embarked on a second career at the ripe age of 22. As the stage manager, she does not yet consistently manage the stage, except for some fancy tap dancing. She is most effective when she has to portray awkwardness, shyness, winsome young love. How much of this is performance and how much mere exploitation of her rather endearing...
...order is or could be in this sinful and complex world." To be sure, the man in the postwar street would have given noble reasons for his opposition to British and French colonialism. But how much was his government influenced by idealism, and how much by the visions of ripe markets and raw materials waiting beyond the imperialist walls? How much by the impulse to do "the right thing," and how much by the desire to disengage from the imperialists and win friends among the new nations? Granted, the policy flopped. But was it the failure of principles...
...Baby Doc" is the youngest President and most implausible statesman in the world. His country, with its 3.5 to 5 million wretchedly impoverished black and mulatto peasants -no one knows exactly how many there are-has long been a pariah of the Western Hemisphere, ripe for almost any sort of political chaos. Thus when he assumed office after his father's death in April, Baby Doc was widely voted the Pooh-Bah least likely to succeed. However, Baby Doc-or at least the government that operates in his name-has presided over five months of unlikely tranquillity and even...
...even a peaceful labor settlement would be no guarantee against trouble. The union is ripe for rebellion. Admirers of Joseph Yablonski, the assassinated U.M.W. official who lost a presidential race to Boyle in 1969, have maintained their dissident organization called Miners for Democracy. The Labor Department is now in court seeking to force a rerun of the 1969 election on grounds that it was conducted illegally. Boyle is under indictment by the Justice Department, charged with illegally using union funds for political contributions. To add to Boyle's problems, another bloc called the Black Lung Association has threatened wildcat...