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...fact, the demonstrators were mostly South African students who have been protesting against inequality in education since 1959, when blacks were barred from white universities. As usual, Mrs. Helen Suzman, the tiny Progressive Party's only Member of Parliament, had an answer for the government. The Prime Minister, she told a meeting in Cape Town, was "by nature a policeman himself-never so happy as when he was, metaphorically speaking, wielding a truncheon." The trouble between students and government could hardly be settled, she added, as long as the ruling National Party continued to insist that the demonstrations were...
Orwellian Horror. By last week, when the first two hostels were scheduled to open, the proposed living conditions had raised a storm of protest. Progressive Party M.P. Helen Suzman called the hostels an "Orwellian horror." White women, churchmen and students staged placard protests. Some of the shock felt by chic matrons over the city's "white by night" policy, as it is called, was undoubtedly at the prospect of having no servants to wait on candlelit dinner parties-but by no means all of it was. At a jampacked citizens' meeting, Anglican Bishop John Carter condemned the hostels...
...main characters also suffer from this cardboard figure effect. Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman are extremely good in the title roles, but one doesn't believe they were quite as shallow and naive as their lines indicate. One also wishes that the screenwriter had not put so many "Nicky" and "Sunny" references in the script; even though Nicholas II was a weak monarch not everyone could have had the audacity to call the Tsar of all the Russians "Nicky." Even Haldeman, Kissinger and Mitchell have admitted that they always call Nixon "Mr. President," never "Dick...
Jayston and Janet Suzman, who plays Alexandra, are both highly professional but singularly unengaging actors. They are never able to fight through the emotional paralysis that cripples the film. Endless sequences are expended showing Alexandra wringing her royal hands over the fate of her hemophiliac son Alexis...
...forced to stop in its tracks, take painful stock of itself and ask itself where it is going. For South Africa, such a time has finally come." Says Novelist Alan Paton, former leader of the banned Liberal Party: "There is a loosening of the logjam." Adds Helen Suzman, the opposition Progressive Party's only Member of Parliament: "For the first time in many years, I'm optimistic about the future of South Africa...