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Aware of these doctoring techniques, Judge John J. Sirica has indicated that he would like experts to examine the Watergate tapes. But there is a problem; anyone who listens to the tapes will learn what is on them-a breach of confidentiality. Under the U.S. Court of Appeals order, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Could the President's Tapes Be Altered? | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

But Chaplin is not trying to make the simpleminded and useless statement that even murderers have their good points. He is after something deeper, exploring the ambivalences of modern society. Verdoux deeply believes his acts are excusable, and we want to know why. The only time he allows himself to...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Chaplin the Lady Killer | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

Nations which do not know how to get to the roots must settle for the branches. Thus, in nations that our textbooks call totalitarian, strict controls obtain concerning press and TV, intellectual discussion and public debate. These societies are like bad gardeners who spend whole days out in the hot...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Harvard's Role In Perpetuation Of Class-Exploitation | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

THE OLD songs used in the film are as welcome as familiar friends. Everyone has moments of self-pity or absorbing anger, and Young is skillful at striking that self-obsessed chord in all of us. But his skill, or at least his elusiveness which passes for subtlety, started to...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Bum Voyage | 10/24/1973 | See Source »

Jean Baptiste Delisle may be the most skillful politician in Washington. Every noon he brings together the folks who count in the fractured capital and he sends them away a little mellower. Paul, as he is known to the cognoscenti, is the maitre d' of the Sans Souci, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Where the Elite Meet to Eat | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

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