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...Front Page, competition among Chicago papers in the 1920s was fierce-and sometimes violent. Today's newspaper battle is less bloody but scarcely less frantic. Circulation campaigns are fought with radio and TV spots instead of hired toughs, and an exclusive is more often a series of sober public service articles about mental health than a blaring bannerline scoop about a trunk murder. But Chicago remains the only U.S. city with competing papers in both morning and afternoon...
...Touch is Bergman's first film in English. It is certainly not among his better ones. An intimate psychological drama about a love affair and an ensuing domestic crisis, The Touch is reminiscent of those sober and slightly dreary "women's dramas" that Bergman made back in the mid-'5'0s, films like A Lesson in Love or Brink of Life. The plot is narrowly, intensely focused on a housewife named Karin (Bibi Andersson), who is approaching middle age and who, after 15 years of marriage, yields to her first extramarital affair. Hers is a loving...
THOUGH he was once one of the more notorious playboys of the Arab world, Morocco's King Hassan II quickly proved himself a sober ruler when he acceded to the throne more than ten years ago. But the slim, dark-eyed monarch still enjoys a good bash, and he decided to celebrate in style when he turned 42 last week. Accordingly, he invited 500 guests, including Cabinet Ministers, generals and the diplomatic corps, to join him at Skhirat, one of his ten palaces, which is situated at a seaside spa ten miles outside Rabat...
...irony is that the men of the Mafia, for reasons of camouflage, have arrived at the life-style of the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. But the double irony is that propriety has now become its own parody. While the children of the league labor to prove how sober, hardworking, puritanical they are, the children of the Mayflower, dressed in a travesty of the 1930s' Italian-gangster wardrobe, are straining twice as hard (from Swiss ski lodges to Caribbean beaches) to prove they are, at heart, impulsive Latin playboys...
...wiretapping. Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst followed with a slightly veiled attack on Boggs' drinking problem and emotional instability in the past. Kleindienst said Boggs was "sick, or not in possession of his faculties." But reporters who questioned Boggs after the speech found him motivated only by sober and sensible outrage...