Word: ullman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snatched her from her mother's clutches out of paternal concern for her own good. According to the original text this is all wrong. The High Priest is traditionally a somewhat remote cult figure; here he has become a gentle, tender-eyed parent--the sort of man Liv Ullman should have been married to in Scenes From a Marriage. Although this change makes the scenes between him and Pamina affectionate and even moving, the fight over Pamina now seems to be the result of a broken home, and the pure moral struggle between the forces of darkness and light...
...should be noticing him, too. During the overture he weaves shots of his audience into a vast mosaic of human faces (cutting to the beat of the music), and he returns obsessively to a belond angelic little girl who by some odd coincidence looks a lot like Liv Ullman and a touch like Bergman himself. Between acts his camera wanders around backstage, where Sarastro reads the score to Wagner's Parsifal, the Queen of the Night drags grimly on a cigarette, a court page reads comic books, and the two lovers play checkers in a coy parody of The Seventh...
Ford had planned to follow tradition and unwrap his tax proposals in his State of the Union address in January But that timetable was torn up last week, when Democratic Congressman Al Ullman's Ways and Means Committee seemed to be making fast progress on a complicated package of tax reforms. Beyond revising the tax laws, Ullman expected to extend most provisions of the "temporary" tax cut that had been enacted earlier this year to spur the lagging economy. These lower rates are scheduled to expire on Jan. 1, and without action before then, withholding rates will revert...
...Ullman's committee had planned to call Simon last week to testify on whether the Administration would support such an extension. The White House did not see Ullman's hearings as the best forum for a major Administration tax statement, so Ford decided to get the jump on the Democrats...
Ways and Means Chairman Ullman fumes that the very idea is "totally preposterous." Congress, he points out, can scarcely be expected to deal with "a mythical budget that doesn't exist. Now if the President really wants a $395 billion budget, he ought to send it up." Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey dismissed Ford's proposal as "a subtle ploy but not hard for people to figure out: give 'em a tax cut in January and hack the budget after the elections...