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...tearful confessional Veronika rises from the floor and slyly mocks her own self-dramatizing instincts. "With that," she interrupts herself, "Veronika poured herself another Pernod." Eustache's self-consciousness is so extreme that it is difficult to tell where his irony stops and his sincerity begins. The safest course is to assume that there is no statement in the film that is not a pseudo-statement, nothing that escapes Eustache's subversive ambiguity...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: A Tale Without a Moral | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...philosophical-sounding, "wiser-than-when-I-was-young" approach of Mike Kazin. And fourth, he dismisses an organized, communist movement as a serious alternative to this otherwise depressing picture. That's where "We" comes in. It was written to mock communism without having to take an open stand--the safest way. In doing this Shapiro displays truly creative journalism, some samples of which follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE KNEW WE WERE RIGHT | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...number of bicyclists has skyrocketted in the past few years and with it the number of bicyclists in traffic accidents. Bicycling in Cambridge is not the safest of all "sports". Unfortunately many of these accidents are the bicyclist's fault. Massachusetts law allows bicycles on all roads (except expressways and limited access highways), but it also requires that they obey all traffic regulations. Bicyclists have frequently disregarded one way and stop signs, occassionally with disastrous results...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Bicycling: The People's Transportation | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

After the government confiscated some 500,000 firearms from the populace, the number of violent crimes dropped dramatically, particularly in Manila. The capital, once one of the most crime-ridden cities in Asia, has become one of the safest-an improvement reflected in last year's 48% increase in tourism. A drastic crackdown on tax evaders has increased government revenues enough to enable Marcos to double state expenditures on roads and utilities. A "beautification project" has removed some of the ugly squatter slums from Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The Limits to Martial Law | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...victories of Austick in Ripon and Freud in Ely occurred in well-to-do farming areas formerly considered among the safest Tory seats. To increase their advantage, the Tories called the by-elections so soon after the deaths of the Tory incumbents that one of the bereaved families complained about unseemly haste. In Ripon, the Liberals did not have a phone at their campaign headquarters until two weeks before the vote. In Ely, Freud recalls, "there were 400 sq. mi. of trees already plastered with Conservative posters while I was still waiting to get estimates from my printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Freudian Slip | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

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