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...central conflict in the film stems from Ivan's relationship with his wife Gloria (Tuesday Weld). Stricken with wanderlust, Gloria can't stay married to any one man for more than a few years and can't keep track of her kids, either. Practically at the outset, she runs off again, this time with a chubby accountant, and leaves the kids with Ivan. But the tykes are used to it; she's abandoned them before--once for each of their three fathers...
...Mother" Teresa is a fanatic whose activities are actually harmful to the poverty-stricken society in which she works. Repeating medieval ideas about human-sexuality, she opposes birth control and abortion--the only possible ways of reducing the overpopulation responsible for much of India's devastating poverty. She uses her asceticism as an excuse to preach against abortion, her one topic when addressing Western audiences...
...stocking of fallout shelters. Constructed on orders from President John F. Kennedy '40, the shelters were filled with water, specially packed biscuits and candy. Many of the signs designating shelters still mark. Harvard buildings, but none of the shelters have any provisions. The biscuits were sent to the famine-stricken population of Bangladesh in 1975, and the other stores were thrown...
...stricken star of Tootsie, due out later this year, making the film has been a complete drag. "His breasts fall down. The high heels hurt his feet. The makeup causes pimples, and the heat makes his beard show through after a couple of hours," says sympathetic Director Sydney Pollack. The breast-fallen lady he is referring to is that model of middle-aged primness, Dustin Hoffman, 44. In Tootsie, the actor renowned for his demanding perfectionism plays an actor so renowned for his demanding perfectionism that he finally has to go into distaff disguise to get a part. Tales...
...always waged it. Today, the civilization's sheer annihilating capabilities make war seem a grotesque old habit of the race, with nothing to recommend it. But at one time, war was young and stirring and beautiful-or at least it had that side as well as its awful stricken one, its waste of life, its writhing and refugees. War made the adrenaline run, it gave life drama and meaning. The young went off to it with a Zouave gaiety. In our own time, we have expected our candidates for public office to have a war record. In his Inaugural...