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...made a historic decision in favor of better relations with the West-and Bonn in particular. Eastern European leaders have little choice but to respond favorably to Brandt's overtures.Now, in anticipation of the increasing danger of cultural and political inroads, the East bloc regimes are trying to tighten internal discipline and stamp out the last remnants of a preCommunist society. Two examples...
...seemingly unhappy endings to the love lives of the minor characters are unsatisfactory theater. The play itself is too long, too complicated, and far from inspired in many spots. Even the patter song is less than amusing. In short, the whole show could use a good play doctor to tighten up both acts. The Gilbert and Sullivan style is recognizable to the point of obviousness: usually, however, Gilbert's quick with and Sullivan's facile orchestration make their operettas work. Yeomen of the Guard, like Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, never quite gets off the ground...
...also recommended that the traffic and parking departments tighten regulations on deliveries to stores and investigate the closing of one end of the mall. This measure, the subcommittee report said, would censure that the mall
...profit margins. For example, if the price of steel used in a car goes up $ 10, an automaker can charge the customer an extra $10 plus the company's usual profit margin. The Price Commission could decide to restrict the increase to a flat $ 10. And it may tighten up or eliminate entirely the "term-limit" pricing rule under which a company can raise the cost of some items by as much as 8% so long as its average increase for all products stays within 1.8%. Polls show that the public is discouraged by the price-fighting progress...
Long before the subversive scare, the brilliant assembly-line satire Modern Times (1936) had galled industrialists. When the dehumanized Charlie went crazy-when he stepped from the factory trying to tighten the foreman's nose, fire hydrants, the buttons on women's dresses-big-business executives took the gestures personally. When the Tramp waved a danger signal at a truck driver and was arrested by the police for inciting crowds with a Red flag-well, that was ridiculing authority, wasn't it? Explained Chaplin: "I was only poking fun at the general confusion from which...