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...movie is a procession of perfect moments. Its dialogue is an exquisite fusion of the hard-boiled and a shameless, high-cholesterol sentimentality. The lines inspire a laughing, capitulating kind of affection. One cherishes them: What waters? We're in the desert . . . I was misinformed . . . Was that cannonfire? Or was it my heart pounding? . . . Kiss me! Kiss me as though it were the last time! . . . Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By ... I saved my first drink to have with you. . . Round up the usual suspects . . . We'll always have Paris. It has inspired bits of business...
There are some ironies, of the life-imitates-art variety, that only fate is shameless enough to stage. In 1975 Fassbinder played the lead role of an upwardly mobile homosexual in his own Fox and His Friends. At film's end he lies dead of an overdose in a Munich subway station, his pockets rifled by street urchins who may grow up, and end up, like Fox. In real life such a death, with its eerily obvious parallels, would be too pat, too sentimental in its pessimism for this icy-eyed film maker. He was obsessed with the morality...
...unusual fashion. Ordering him to fondle her breasts, the doctor says: "I have a perfectly ordinary female body. Shut your eyes and use it." Miles protests. He may not know who he is, but he is certainly not the kind of man who would submit to such shameless immorality, and in a hospital to boot. Naked now, the doctor and nurse intensify their ministrations. "Our sole function," explains his physician, "is to provide you with a source of erotic arousal...
...over which firm would land a multibillion-dollar contract for military cargo planes. The allies in this case were Lockheed executives working in tandem with the Pentagon to sell Congress the C-5B over its rival, Boeing's 747. In one of the fiercest and, some say, most shameless lobbying battles Congress has seen in decades, the issue of which plane was better often became obscured in partisan crossfire. The air war ended last week when the House, by a vote of 289 to 127, decided to spend $860 million to begin the purchase of 50 Lockheed...
...shameless politicking over the bills did nothing to reduce many farmers' sense of alienation from Washington. Currently, the Midwest is trying to cope with problems created by the most bountiful harvest ever: 8 billion bu. of corn and 2.8 billion bu. of wheat. The resulting fall in prices has been compounded by rising costs, high interest rates and stagnant consumer demand. But many farm leaders now argue that subsidizing overproduction will not solve their problems. Says Iowa Agriculture Secretary Robert Lounsberry: "The election produced a mandate for the marketplace to set the price, but now a lot of people...