Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns of his enemies. Above all, Stavisky is a man whose sense of living is somehow heightened, whose gestures are grandiose and larger than life. But, like a force of nature, or a mutant, he is never explained--we are left unclear whether this strange, attractive figure is the eternal type of the low-born, high-living con man, an Ivar Krueger or Bernie Cornfeld, or the unique, demented product of his own life history...
...week's end, it was unclear how much the fedayeen raid had compromised the negotiating position of Sadat, who is eager for further peace moves but worries that making a separate deal with Israel would seemingly isolate him from the Syrians and the Palestinians. Syrian President Hafez Assad and the P.L.O. have both been putting pressure on Sadat to maintain a unified Arab front, which lately has shown some signs of strain. Two weeks ago the Palestinians publicly announced that they were sending a delegation of second-ranking P.L.O. executives to Cairo to discuss the Kissinger negotiations with Sadat...
...this is an illusion: analysts intervene in the process by which patients create their values. Sometimes this is done by adjusting an individual to society's expectations, sometimes by seeming to encourage destructively "unrepressed" behavior (like a selfish sexual life that uses other people as objects). Erikson is unclear as to whether analysts can ever stop prescribing values, however unconsciously. But he insists they must try to do so, particularly since he expects rising pressures to turn them into gurus...
...that is left unclear. But it is certain that De Sica's last collaboration with his old colleague Cesare Zavattini is a wise, delicate and moving work, a worthy ending for an extraordinarily valuable career. ∎Richard Schickel
...friends were sympathetic. Said a fellow Actress Sydne Rome: "What she did was actually, for her, an act of mercy-hurting herself in order to help another person." But whether Schneider, who has already been dropped from Bertolucci's 1900, will keep her current job is unclear. "It is the first time I have had to go see an actress in an asylum," said Ponti. "This affair is very sad-humanly...