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...provide any of its major productions; and Jacques Tali's new comedy, Playtime, is on 70-mm. film, too large for Lincoln Center's projectors. Several works by major directors-notably Francois Truffaut's Stolen Kisses and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Oedipus-were judged unfit...
Just how much more unfit than some of the items accepted by the festival is difficult to imagine. Closely Watched Trains, by Jiri Menzel of Czechoslovakia, won an Oscar as the Best Foreign Film of 1967. This year Menzel returns with Capricious Summer, a disappointingly slight fable about a traveling carnival in a small country town. There are three films from what the festival labels "the German Renaissance"; two of them suggest that it might have been better advertised as "the Return of the Visigoths." The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a paralyzed semidocumentary in which...
...PSYCHIATRISTS SAY GOLD WATER IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT! That determinedly flamboyant headline dressed the cover of Fact magazine one month before the presidential election of 1964. The entire issue was an examination of the "unconscious of a conservative," based largely on answers to a questionnaire sent to the 12,356 psychiatrists listed by the American Medical Association. Of the 2,417 who replied, 657 said Barry Goldwater was fit for the presidency, 571 declined to take a position, and 1,189 called him unfit-the latter in no uncertain terms. Some of their opinions: "emotionally unstable," "immature," "cowardly...
...said to be one such; his attorneys are now preparing an appeal against his death sentence for the 1966 slaying of eight nurses in Chicago. Another is Daniel Hugon, awaiting trial in Paris on a charge of having murdered a prostitute. His lawyers contend that he is mentally unfit to stand trial because of his chromosomal abnormality, and the Paris court has appointed a panel of experts, including both a psychiatrist and one of the world's most brilliant geneticists, Dr. Jerome Lejeune, to advise...
...Except by the Daily News, a Republican paper in Welch, which editorialized: "Bobby Kennedy is uninvited, unwanted, undesirable, unethical, unfit, unloved, unprepared, unshorn, unpopular and overrated...