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This year's (or should one say this month's?) Alfred Hitchcock pastiche is of the sober rather than the raffish variety. It is intended not as a knockoff but as an hommage (the French pronunciation on that word, if you please) to the Old Master's late high style. The stars, Roy Scheider and Meryl Streep, are pleasing people; Nestor Almendros' carefully burnished cinematography imparts to Manhattan's streets a theatrically menacing glow that subtly transforms and romanticizes their mean reality. Writer-Director Benton, working from a story he and his onetime partner David...
...informality, González cultivated a serious new image for this year's campaign. Sober suits and ties have replaced the rumpled slacks and open collars, and a sleek layered haircut has tamed his once unruly black locks. He has also brought a harddriving, businesslike approach to politics. During the campaign, for example, he directed a skilled and efficient team, and consulted regularly with an eight-man brain trust from Spanish universities. The son of a dairy worker, González was born and raised in Seville. He was the only one of four children to receive a higher...
SUCH MOMENTS of grandeur furnish the perfect balance for the rest of Working which is sober and reflective. Briefly alone under the light, each secretary and steelworker and schoolteacher talks about life and the job, awkwardly philosophizes, and turns back to obscurity. Some evoke the original interview clearly, while others flower into song and acute, desperate commentary on their lives. Terkel evidently found articulate and thoughtful subjects for his research; instead of rambling "life's rough" sagas, he has documented startling flashes of insight...
Reagan did tone down his rhetoric. He did not even use the words Republican and Democrat, and he asserted that "there's plenty of blame to go around" for economic distress. He sought to project an image of sober concern, stating that " the dark cloud of unemployment hangs over the lives of 11 million of our friends, neighbors and family...
Even as it heads toward probable successes at the polls, the freeze movement faces the task of transforming its often uninformed enthusiasm into sober thought if it is to help create a climate for the control of nuclear weapons. That life-sustaining goal is one on which no thoughtful American disagrees. Yet despite the prevalence of the freeze issue on ballots in November, the national debate over how to reach that common goal has only begun. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and William R. Doerner/San Francisco