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...Congress is interfering with Kissinger's flexibility, that is a good thing. It should interfere some more. His flexibility unleashed the Christmas bombing--apparently almost exclusively to reassure Thieu that the American government's attitude remained as inflexible as ever-just as it attempted to unleash a new Tonkin Gulf incident last week. Kissinger calls "flexibility" what other people call "war crimes." There have been too many of those in Indochina already...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam: Good and Bad News | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

This realization and Christina's perfervid protestations unleash tremors of repressed passion that stay, unsurprisingly, under wraps. The Abdication plumps for denial as the greatest good. Its real validity may be for movies like this. ∙Jay Cocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Papal Passion | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...watched, country clubbers and suburban elites, firm believers all in the etiquette of the game. When commercial sponsors started backing tennis heavily in the early '60s, a popular participation mushroomed. Entrepreneurs figured that they could tune into something big--the problem, were the killing to be made was to unleash tennis from its dignified moorings, to get that governor off his old stately carriage, let him loose like a hot rod from hell. Figuring, first, that tennis had to be turned to big business. Then what drew the biggest box office crowds? It was the Woodstocks, the audience participation cathartics...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Lobsters' Game | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...doesn't work as well as Barbara, but it does fulfill its role as an intriguing end to an enjoyable double-billing. One's only regret at the finish of the night, is that Chapman did not unleash his students more often. But with the limited amount of time that he budgeted these two plays in his overall course program it appears that if Chapman had had his way there might be no freshman seminar production at all. This type of performance, however, even if it is a simple by-product of a year's "academic" work, is worth retaining...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Bringing in the Sheaves | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

...Melbourne Herald said: "All together now, wince." Annoyed by the criticism, a spokesman for the Prime Minister stiffly replied that it was the tune that counted and the words hardly mattered. But they clearly do matter to many Australians, and the choice of the new anthem seemed to unleash the country's lyrical genius. One sardonic proposal, set to the tune of My Old Man's a Dustman, came from Phillip Adams, who writes a satirical column for a Melbourne paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: A Song to Forget | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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