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...Senate." In the car is Cecil Andrus, former governor of Idaho and current Secretary of the Interior, who has come to Massachusetts to endorse Tsongas. They have traded compliments about their concern for energy and the environment. Tsongas' driver is doing a steady 75. "As a member of the Select Ad-Hoc Committee on Energy, [Paul] introduced two successful amendments to the National Energy Act requiring conservation studies to reduce gas consumption...
Schaffner's direction has no charisma, no wit, little skill. With the exception of the obvious, lowangle shots of Gregory Peck as the evil doctor, his camera set-ups are standard and static, the editing choppy and unrhythmical, the use of select German symphonies and thundering crescendos at the sight of Peck ludicrous. The pace is non-existent until the last twenty minutes, a bloody brawl between Peck and Laurence Olivier as an old Nazi-hunter, when it may be labeled "slow." The old men resort to biting each other, and the graphic shredding of Olivier's ear and Peck...
OLIVIER PRESERVES the classical rhythm, the curling-up pitch at the end of a line and the elongation of select syllables until they detonate, and he fuses all this with bravura good-humor. Compare this portrait to his massive, thick-featured, iron-rimmed Nazi dentist in the Marathon Man and you've good example of why people label this great man the most versatile actor who's ever lived. Olivier is on-screen more than anyone else in the The Boys from Brazil, and he hasn't had a movie role this large since Sleuth...
Hailing Simon as "one of the greatest of inter-disciplinary researchers," the Academy specifically cited his pioneering research into the way complex organizations decide to adjust their markets in response to competition, choose investment portfolios and select a country for foreign investment...
Nonetheless, Washington is continuing its efforts to bring in both the Palestinians and Hussein. Ambassador-at-Large Alfred Atherton last week explained the Camp David proposals to a select group of West Bank and Gaza leaders; meanwhile, State Department officials drew up responses to a list of two dozen questions posed by Hussein about the agreements. The King was particularly concerned about the future of predominantly Arab east Jerusalem, whether Jewish settlers would participate in the self-governing authority for the West Bank, and the issue of who would exercise sovereignty over the area after the transition period ends...