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...their way to teach writing, one group of young brigadistas meet an old brigadista--one who had fought alongside Augusto Cesar Sandino in the late '20s and early '30s, one who had fought actual Yanquis and not just the products of our arms industry. The youngsters are fascinated, the toothless old man only too happy to answer questions like, "What did you do with the Yanquis when you caught them?" ("We let them go without their ears," he grins). You can either be amazed by the power of tyrants to hold out against suffering people, or the power of long...
...Cage Aux Folles caricatured most straights as such mean-spirited tight-assed hypocrites that heterosexual audiences could laugh without feeling challenged--which, in one respect, was a cop-out on Molinaro's part. While the script seemed to aspire to incisive social satire, Molinaro made the film into a toothless, albeit funny, comedy of manners...
Welcoming Old Age It was good to read a scientific substantiation of what Gray Panthers have long believed-that the image of all elderly as toothless, sexless and energyless is a stereotype...
Reagan announced some of the actions he had pledged to take early in his Administration: a 60-day freeze on pending Government regulations, and steps toward abolishing the Council on Wage and Price Stability, a toothless device set up to combat inflation. Earlier in the week, Reagan eliminated all price controls on domestic oil, eight months before they were to expire, in an effort to encourage more domestic production (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The move will increase the cost of gasoline and heating oil, but will add billions to oil company profits-as well as billions in federal tax revenues...
...they shared the Pulitzer Prize. One, Keyes Beech, of the Chicago Daily News, was in Bangkok. At 66, he is charging around Asia again, now for the Los Angeles Times. Homer Bigart, 72, of the defunct Herald-Trib, sent a message of regret. He was, he explained, temporarily toothless: "I am capable of putting down the martini, but I can't handle the olives." The third, Marguerite Higgins, who worked with Bigart on the Trib, died in 1966 at age 45, of a tropical bug caught in Viet Nam. These days, when reporters with pretty faces are all over...