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Sorting out the sex lives, remoralizing he turpitude, and tracking down Benesch at the same time, makes for a taut, tough film that manages to survive such ludicrous lines as "This adultery is a lonely business, isn't it?" Commendably long on documentary detail about police procedure, Madigan is...
Thus ended the career of one of Communism's most guileful and skillful leaders. One of Novotny's first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague...
Johnson, meanwhile, kept repeating that he would begin a conference "tomorrow" if possible and that he would consent to whatever initial agenda the other side might propose. The President also invited Thant to Washington this week to "thank him very much for another try." In fact, the Administration was fiercely...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Shakespeare's duo may have been swinging students on the Wittenberg campus, but when Tom Stoppard tosses them into the midst of the intrigants of Elsinore, they seem two poor sophomores being hazed by a malevolent fraternity. The skillful dramatic interplay between Brian Murray...
In a final gesture, the narrator seems to turn up the house lights to reveal that his tale is only an illusion. As he sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all...