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Juan Carlos' public pronouncements have been few and bland. Nonetheless, there are encouraging signs that the King may be a good deal less cautious than either Fraga or Arias, a timid holdover from Franco's days who is probably too venerable and rigid to be the kind of Premier that Juan Carlos needs at such a critical time. The King apparently recognizes that if Spain swings too far left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain...
Electric Shock. It was a defiantly wise decision-one, Nolen concedes, a layman might have been too timid to make. At Massachusetts General, he learned that his problem was arteriosclerosis; a buildup of fatty deposits was obstructing two of the three coronary arteries. The suggested remedy: an operation that heart surgeons humorously call "a double cabbage"-from the acronym CAB (for coronary artery bypass). Though more than 90% of the patients who undergo such operations survive at least five years, Nolen knew that any heart surgery posed grave risks. While the surgeons do their work, the heartbeat must be stopped...
...director's absurd vision of the Orient culminates in two scenes, one in a Chinese acupuncture shop and another in Bali. In the first, an inscrutable Chinese man in a grey robe places two needles in Emmanuelle's temples, and the audience--along with Emmanuelle's timid male companion--watches her drift off into sexual fantasies. But it's hard to see why she needs anything to set her off, given her behavior in the rest of the film; all the acupuncture does is serve as an excuse for what, predictably, happens next. The scene in Bali, while slightly less...
...their common dissatisfaction lies in the fact that that high school championship season was the high point of their lives. Through the years they have never been able to equal the glory of their youthful triumph. They have, in fact, fallen into mediocrity. One of the players, now a timid and bitterly self-pitying junior high school principal, mentions that his son asked him to define mediocrity. He notes that mediocre means "of low excellence," and he claims that his son asked simply because the boy sees his father as the epitome of mediocrity, the epitome of low excellence...
...American political scene in this century, was talking about what kind of a President he would be. In an interview last week, he mused to TIME Correspondent Dean E. Fischer: "Most of my attitude toward Government is very aggressive. I wouldn't be a quiescent or a timid President...