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...result, according to the latest findings of a survey completed Aug. 24 for TIME by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. is that for the first time Republican Ronald Reagan is running ahead of Carter as the choice for President. Texan John Connally, though still only the fourth choice of Republicans and independents for the G.O.P. nomination, has closed the gap with Carter, and now trails the President by only four percentage points. Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker finishes in a dead heat with Carter. Both Baker and Reagan would defeat Carter among Southern Protestants...
Appointing special "blue ribbon" juries made up of people with technical or business training is one way around the problem, though it would probably face constitutional challenges because such jurors are not randomly chosen from the population. A better solution in lengthy cases might be for judges to stop excusing anyone who wants to avoid jury duty. Many lawyers and judges alike are wary of doing away with juries altogether in big cases. Judges have their own biases; at least juries offer what Los Angeles Lawyer Maxwell M. Blecher calls "a bouillabaisse of public viewpoints." These are worth hearing...
...Though Rich Kids is a snappy title, it does not fit this fashionable, smart-talking New York comedy. The film's twelve-year-old hero and heroine, Jamie (Jeremy Levy) and Franny (Trini Alvarado), are rich all right, but Rich Kids has no interest in the vicissitudes of wealth. The movie is actually about the effect of divorce on children-an equally good subject, but one that deserves more justice than it receives here. As the cute but empty title indicates, Rich Kids would rather be glib than honest...
...oldtime biblical kitsch. Once Cecil B. DeMille re-created the glory days of Moses in glorious Technicolor; now Director Peter Brook is giving the same treatment to G.I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949), the philosopher whose Zen-like quest for spiritual truth has greatly influenced the modern human-potential movement. Though The Ten Commandments and Remarkable Men are theologically antithetical, they are cinematic first cousins. Both films suffer from an excess of piety, a shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular, campy Moses (Charlton Heston) is a hell of a lot more fun than Brook...
...Though Brook has brought more new ideas to the stage than any other contemporary director, his film-making skills remain primitive; even his adaptations of his own brilliant theater productions (King Lear, Marat/Sade) have been flat. Here he is hobbled by lapses in continuity, fake-looking studio sets and a multinational cast. The scenery, much of it shot in Afghanistan, is breathtaking, but the photography is routine. What is needed is some sort of theatricality-if not the forthright vulgarity of DeMille, then at least the romanticism of David Lean. With its incongruous mix of radical content and stodgy style...