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Despite the current troubles in South Viet Nam, Thieu's leadership does not appear to be in immediate jeopardy. His power base remains firmly rooted in the army, which, according to one Western diplomat. Thieu has successfully "neutralized" through his shrewd handling of promotions and assignments. Thieu is no longer obliged to listen to the views of the U.S. embassy as he once was. "The Americans have less control these days," says a senior diplomat in Saigon. "They are pretty much out of the business of advising." Nonetheless, many South Vietnamese assume that Thieu is still the Americans...
...draws its inspiration from every stage musical ever mounted, then defies you to care. What can one make of writing that calls for the leading lady to meet her leading man, survey him coolly as he rushes through his paces, and comment to a friend, "Bobby, this is a shrewd kid"? There are several possible reactions: get huffy, go with it, or be thankful she does not add "He'll go far." Funny Lady repeatedly invites all such responses. The good thing about the movie is the nervy way it proves that they are not mutually exclusive...
...runway, half-clad in one of the twelve to 15 costumes Cher Sarkesian Bono wears out every broadcast hour, she inspires more -and infinitely richer-fantasies than all the plastics of Disneyland. Indeed, it is barely possible that Cher in Cher may -with a little help from the many shrewd friends who so elaborately package her each week-redefine that grand old American cant phrase, "family entertainment." For if her style is at odds with that of the competition, the fact remains that like everyone who aspires to success when all of America is still awake, she must offer...
Although often derided by party compatriots as a mediocrity, Bulganin had a shrewd instinct for survival. In 1953 he joined the Presidium plot to arrest the hated secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, and two years later he backed Nikita Khrushchev's successful attempt to oust Georgi Malenkov as Premier. As a reward, Bulganin was given Malenkov'sjob...
This new version of Sanditon offers one solution. The original fragment has been completed by "Another Lady,"* her anonymity coyly echoing the signature ("by a lady") on Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility. Austen, this Other Lady suggests, might have chosen to follow Charlotte Heywood, a shrewd country girl on a visit to Sanditon. Charlotte falls in love with a fellow from London named Sidney Parker and, after a minuet of polite rivalries, surreptitious coach journeys and misdirected letters, happily snares and is snared by him. In other words, most of the complexity, satire and social implications suggested...