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...notes that the payola has inflated from $25 before passage in 1974 of the Privacy Act, designed to shield citizens from at least some invasions of privacy by the Government. Since then, Beltrante gripes, some of his phone company sources have dried up, although the law does not directly threaten them...
...following story). But Moscow's deepest concern is probably the possible reverberations that Eurocommunism, if allowed to develop unchecked, might have among the captive regimes of Eastern Europe. If seductive ideas about an independent Communism were allowed to take root there, they would not only threaten Moscow's determination to maintain itself as the Rome of international Communism. They would also threaten the East-West balance of power, the informal system of spheres of influence in Europe that the Soviets have sought to maintain and legitimize since World...
...trouble is that the writers could not talk anybody into letting them blow up another roller coaster, or even seriously threaten one, for the climax. So the movie just sort of peters out as everybody chases about at Los Angeles' Magic Mountain park. Couldn't hero and villain at least have wrestled around up there atop the scary Magic Mountain coaster? Why did they bring Segal's daughter near the ride if they were not going to put her on it and thus into thrilling jeopardy...
Lilting Music. Such outbursts of bookishness threaten to tip the novel into a treatise. Fortunately, Mcllvanney always manages to regain his balance by hitting the streets. His evocations of the old city seem etched in ancient stone and rubbed with coal dust. Laidlaw runs his investigation from a fading hotel: "The architecture was Victorian and very dirty. It had been cunningly equipped with curlicues and excrescences, the chief effect of which was to make it an enormous gin for drifting soot and aerial muck. It stood now half-devoured by its catch, weighted with years of Glasgow...
...insistance that cultural phenomena are separable from political and economic trends. Her major complaint against what she refers to as "the murderous Soviet regime," for instance, is that it stultifies culture. She finds the Columbia students much worse than the society that engendered their alienation because they threaten an institution of culture; she ignores the war that their society was involved in at the time. By looking at cultural phenomena in a vacuum, she can ignore the outside events that shaped them--the flaws in her institutions and social structure. Trilling was a literary critic (two essays in this volume...