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...Maples Stories). The Maples move through an intricate arabesque of estrangements and reunit-ings. Richard slowly decides that the only thing worse than parting is staying together. The author says that the Maples' long travail was not simply a transcript of what the Updikes were going through: "A novel should never seem autobiographical to the writer, autobiographical though it may seem to the reader." But many moments in the Maples stories betray a knowledge of pain too recent to disguise. The occasion arrives when Richard must tell his children he is leaving: "The partition between his face...
...rather gamely played by Jacqueline Bisset), whose function it is to become a refugee so that we can see what havoc was wreaked on the civilian population by the Communist invaders. One has not seen a heroine's hairdo stay so splendidly in place, no matter what her travail, since the 1940s. The $46 million did not go into the battle sequences; they look cheap, have neither scale nor point, and many of them are merely discussed rather than shown. But then, the entire film is so disjointed that it seems to have been cut from epic to program...
...bring Belgium's high labor costs and overly protective practices into line with those of other European countries. Surprisingly, the nation's aggressive unions reacted with restraint. "Devaluation is a fact," said Georges Debunne, secretary-general of the Socialist-led Federation Generate du Travail de Belgique. "We must do everything to make it succeed...
...were humane and progressive. He favored reducing defense expenditures beyond a point I considered prudent so as to free resources for social programs; several times I appealed his interventions to Nixon. Ehrlichman was shaken by student protest following the Cambodian incursions. He had three teen-age children, and their travail touched him deeply. But Nixon's favor depended on one's readiness to fall in with the paranoid cult of the tough guy. The conspiracy of the press, the hostility of the Establishment, the flatulence of the Georgetown set were permanent features of Nixon's conversation, which...
...heartbroken that his tormentors on the White House staff might be taken down a peg. Through the initial period of Watergate, Agnew remained conspicuously aloof. And when his own purgatory started, the White House, including Nixon, reciprocated by dissociating from him. Agnew's icy detachment from his chiefs travail brought a premonition of imminent disaster. A Vice President eager to succeed would hardly be so cutting unless convinced that Nixon would not be decisive in the 1976 nominating process...