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...film explores the duality of Doinel's nature; on one hand, he defends his solitude with a stubborn, irrational fervor: no, he will not leave his shirts or razor at his girlfriend Sabine's flat, even though doing so would put an end to his continual lateness at work. Yet he tracks down, seduces, and falls in love with this same woman, all from finding a photograph of her, ripped up on the floor of a telephone booth. He forgets that he and his wife Christine (Claude Jade) are to be divorced that morning. Yet as he and his wife...
...those in the U.S. bemused by the Koranic punishment [March 12] of the wicked (hand lopping for thievery, stoning to death for adultery)-almost never carried out-it is pertinent to recall a Judaeo-Christian injunction: "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey ... the men of the city shall stone him to death ..." (Deuteronomy...
...prisoners now realized that China had "exercised leniency and decency towards prisoners of war." The commandant said that 30% of the prisoners now agree that Viet Nam had been the "aggressor" in the war, while a further 60% were inclined toward this view. Only 10%, he claimed, were still "stubborn" in their insistence that China was at fault. Some visiting journalists were annoyed at being used to transmit Chinese statements about the prisoners' attitude toward their own country. Wade protested that the Vietnamese would "almost certainly execute or severely punish these prisoners" after they were repatriated. Replied Wang...
...consular employee in Guyana and turned over to the FBI. Guyanese officials were given a copy. While both Guyana and the U.S. Justice Department refused to release the tape, copies somehow proliferated. The one obtained by TIME last week discloses that Jones' death decree was met with stubborn resistance as well as fatal acquiescence...
...Cleveland area: "He's rolled the dice. Now he has to pull it off." But there was considerable debate over how much Carter would gain domestically from success. Such a triumph might temporarily strengthen his hand with the power barons in Washington and help him cope with a stubborn Congress, but political memories are short. Nor would success necessarily improve the President's public image for very long. Said New Hampshire Pollster Richard Bennett: "An agreement would help Carter, but the effect would not be lasting...