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...year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English Art Critic Christopher Finch with the full cooperation of the Disney Archives and published, at $45, by Harry N. Abrams. The text has one defect: it is much too unctuous. Nevertheless the book reveals more clearly than anything written before the intricacy of the collaboration that went on in the studio in its earlier and better years. Finch resurrects from anonymity or near oblivion such artists and animators as Fred Moore, Bill Tytla and the abundantly gifted Albert Hurter...
Taylor continues to lurch along the emotional curve between peskiness and seeming paranoid schizophrenia. She tries the patience of her unctuous second husband (Laurence Harvey) and frays the nerves of her best friend (Billie Whitelaw). Finally plans are made to ship her off to a Swiss sanitarium. No matter what she says at this point, it is doubtful that anyone would believe...
Still, like all new strongmen-and a few old ones-Marcos, 55, apparently felt that he needed popular approval. For months the press, once the most outspoken in Asia but now censored, extolled the government. Realizing that such unctuous flattery was making a mockery of the whole election, Secretary of Information Francisco Tatad finally warned against "incompetent praise" and "24-hour encomiums." To ensure a maximum turnout, illiterates were added to the voting rolls and the franchise was extended to 15-year-olds...
...while, in America, sportswriters and boxing buffs--mainly whites, but some blacks, too--were doing the Saint Vitus Dance over what they called the irreparable damage Ali was doing to the fight game and its top honor. Like unctuous clergy defrocking a black sheep priest, they mumbled about heresy and the sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...
There is no shortage of food in Managua; the only problem last week was that most of it was piled up in an airport hangar far away from the hungry and homeless of the city. A bevy of Red Cross volunteers and unctuous army officers waited to do young Somoza's bidding; for the moment, he had other things on his mind, namely his misplaced automobile. "Where is my car?" he demanded. "I want the person who took it arrested immediately," he said, and ran off in search of the culprit. Silence. Since nothing could be done without...