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...group charged, in the name of shareholder responsibility, with the solemn task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that the people on the ACSR, wittingly or unwittingly, are conducting what amounts to an elaborate, if entertaining, sham. They certainly don't seem to think that there is any such thing as shareholder responsibility...
...wanders, like Ellello*u, through a landscape of desolate beauty and frightening foreshadowings, and finally comes back to a world of bittersweet humor and fantastic conclusions. The American of the '50s, reborn in Africa, greets Ellello*u as he emerges from the desert, and each calls the other a sham. Each is right...
...bought some time for itself. Backing away from earlier threats that they would not oppose economic sanctions, the Big Five envoys now agreed that they would veto any such proposal put to the U.N. Security Council until Pretoria's internal settlement is proved beyond doubt to be a sham. The Western powers hope eventually to persuade South Africa to accept a U.N.-supervised vote that the Third World countries could also consider legitimate. But, as one Western diplomat ruefully admitted as he left Pretoria last week: "The talks have left us with one hell of a selling...
PUNK ROCKERS discovered long ago that the pose of violent self-loathing is a quick ticket to media coverage and record sales. Everyone loves to read about mutilation, self-inflicted or otherwise: and if sham turns to reality, so much the better--as in the case of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, now whiling away the hours at Bellevue. After all, if rocks stars can't enact the fantasies of a lobotomized generation, who can? The problem with punk rock--the genuine, mind-rotting type--is that when it's insincere, everyone can tell; but when it's honest...
Altman certainly is not the first director to make films that mock the fraudulent elements of his culture. One thinks immediately, for example, of Luis Bunuel, whose films consistently expose the sham and hypocrisy of latin bourgeois culture. Bunuel's attitude towards his subjects is different from Altman's, however, and the difference says something about the directors themselves, and about the societies that have produced them...