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While Andreotti has no illusions about the Communists' ultimate thrust for absolute power, he also realizes that they do not want Italy's capitalistic structure to collapse completely. Said the Premier: "If the Communist Party does not aim at revolution and dictatorship, it is only natural that it should support the recovery plan. The Communists know full well that if the lira plunges to the bottom, it would mean entering a risky area ... It seems to me that this sense of collective responsibility cannot be misinterpreted as the historic compromise, as some would have...
George Caldwell is not much of a hero, but once aboard the Silver Streak, a sleek train bound from Los Angeles to Chicago, he finds heroism thrust upon him. George (Gene Wilder) is the kind of guy who has his hands full even when he's not carrying anything, so he is hardly equal to the challenge. Say this for him though: he is a dogged fellow, and his blithering persistence manages to keep the villains tellingly off balance...
...What goes on behind closed doors, I think is defended under rights of privacy," Dreshowitz said, "as long as it is not thrust upon unwilling viewers...
...SOUR MESSAGE finally becomes clear: although the glamour has gone and the social thrust flagged, Belmondo can't get the criminal act out of his system. It may not show on his depressed face, but he needs the rush. How in the world Malle conceived the idea to weigh down such a juicy theme and such dashing actors with such a heavy moral remains unclear. But there it is. Le Voleur plays like the flip side to Malle's Lacombe, Lucien. Lacombe made us deal with a young man's value-free drift into collaboration with the Nazis--it showed...
Three weeks after the report was issued, the commission renewed its demands for favorable data. It sent to all the regional offices a memo titled "New Thrust Follow-Up," asking for reports on the "applicability of the commission's findings." Specifically, it directed: "Your monographs will show that desegregation has been successful at the local level for the reasons the commission reports, or that it can and will be more successful if local leadership responds as the commission recommends...