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Nixon enters the main throne room of the emperor, then the smaller Hall of Perfect Harmony. In a corner is a sedan chair, gilded and elaborately carved, on which the emperor was transported to the throne. "He didn't get much exercise if he was always carried on the chair," the President observes. Following Nixon and his party as it sways through the hall seems a bizarre intrusion on the heavenly harmonies, but the building absorbs it all with splendid serenity. When the press and cameramen momentarily block the way, Nixon explains: "Our press is like an unorganized army...
When last seen, Bruce Davison was being devoured by vermin in Willard. He is back, with no visible scars, in The Jerusalem File. This is an adventure in which the only rats are a mob of blood thirsty Arabs who cruise about in a ramshackle black sedan gunning down their enemies...
...Bruce befriended a youthful Arab partisan named Raschid (Zeev Revah), who spoke eloquently of his people's cause. Now, with Bruce studying in the Holy Land, the two resume their tête-á-têtes while Raschid loads automatic-rifle clips. After Raschid goes underground with those fellows in the black sedan, Bruce is one of the few people in Jerusalem who knows how to get in touch with...
...wonder if the New Economic Policy was drafted on the drawing boards of Detroit. There are plenty of bugs in the economy besides the four-wheeled ones from Germany. I doubt that the 90-day warranty period is long enough to get the sedan of state out of the proving grounds...
...with the issues of desegregation and busing, the case mordantly suggests that the "ship of state" is actually the "four-door sedan of state," with the Administration and the Judiciary in the front seat, a tangle of legs simultaneously jamming on the brakes and pumping the accelerator. Behind them, the Houses of Congress primp in the rear-view mirror, snooze or practice orotund backseat driving...