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Nelson Rockefeller swooped down into the sparkling capital city of Brasilia last week amid smiles and cordiality. A bevy of schoolchildren from the American School sang The Star-Spangled Banner, and beaming Brazilian dignitaries, headed by Foreign Minister José Magálhaes Pinto, listened approvingly to Rocky's arrival statement, made in Spanish-accented Portuguese. Not a demonstrator was in sight, and even the blue-clad security police were by and large inconspicuous...
...reader of the San Francisco Chronicle will tell you that Scott Newhall is not one of your milquetoast editors. There was, for instance, the night last February when a gang of white segregationists roughed up one of the paper's photographers covering a meeting about bussing schoolchildren. Next day, Newhall's anger exploded on the editorial page: "As of this moment we do not know the identity of these preposterous boors, but when we find out, the aging executive editor of this newspaper is going to do his best to kick their teeth right through the back...
...fact, the story of La Prisonnière is downright repugnant. The mistress (Elisabeth Wiener) of a with-it artist (Bernard Fresson) falls for the owner of her lover's gallery. The owner (Laurent Terzieff) looks like the sort of tubercular pervert who might peddle pornographic pictures to schoolchildren, but he gets his kicks from having fun with adults. He ties his girls in chains, photographs them in submissive attitudes, fondles and then bullies them into abject sexual surrender. The whole thing is pretty disgusting, what with the heroine being degraded, her lover becoming murderously outraged, and the dirty...
...crowds of schoolchildren and official visitors that trooped through the older galleries found an even greater change. To make maximum use of space, museum architects had installed balconies within the old high-ceilinged galleries, creating a more human scale...
...case of Alexander Pushkin, not only his poetry but his whole essence seems to be lost in translation. Russians-from schoolchildren to arcane critics-still devour Pushkin's poems, plays and stories. His work is viewed at home as the headwater of the great streams in Russian literature. Tolstoy admitted that the idea for Anna Karenina flowed from an unfinished Pushkin story. Dostoevsky once said: "If Pushkin had not existed, there would have been no talented writers to follow." Even the modern Soviet state claims him as a comrade, maintaining that many of his best lines were premature party...