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...Sudden Spasm. If indeed Chou were to emerge stronger than before, China might become even more flexible in its policy toward the U.S., though Peking's basic position on such questions as Taiwan would remain unchanged. Should he lose, however, both Nixon's visit and the warming détente with the U.S. might well be jeopardized, and China could well return to a harshly militant and insular foreign policy. Obviously, the question of who was winning in Peking, still unanswered at week's end, was of global consequence...
ATTICA is certainly not the worst of the 4,770 American prisons and jails. It has too much competition. But it is, nonetheless, fairly typical of a penal system that almost everyone agrees is a disgrace. Almost everyone, that is, but Vice President Spiro Agnew, who, in a spasm of Podsnappery, argued on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times last week that "our penal system remains among the most humane and advanced in the world." By and large, the penologists-not to mention the prisoners and ex-convicts-would go along with Senator Edmund Muskie, who told...
...city, which had estimated it would cost $12,500 to construct a park by normal means, refused to pay; the department of public works, in a spasm of bureaucratic anger, announced that Sweat would be billed for the cost of restoring "said site to its former condition"-meaning, presumably, the cost of re-depositing the garbage there. While that matter awaited a decision by Milwaukee's common council, the associates undertook other projects-planting wheat in another vacant South Side lot (a bill was sent to the Department of Agriculture for subsidy payments of $294), establishing an informal...
...collects men much the way Adrien gathers antiquities. Her affairs with the painter and a wealthy American art fancier gradually arouse Adrien's own confused feelings of jealousy and lust. Amused by the thought of a new conquest, Haydee consents to sleep with him. But in a final spasm of pique, Adrien drives away while she talks to a brace of former boy friends. Alone at the villa, unsatisfied with the solitude he initially sought, Adrien at film's end decides to rejoin his mistress...
...Mailer's rigidity about the roles of the sexes is sorrowfully consistent. In his elaborate and egocentric scheme of things, men are always the aggressors, the activists, the world-beaters. And though he concedes (whimpering in a spasm of pain and pleasure, to be sure) that some women are strong, even tyrannical, still, he's convinced, most women are the subordinates, the stay-at-homes, the steady salt of the earth...