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DOCUMENTARY FILMS tend to date very badly. Within a few months, if not a few weeks, the subject has either been resolved or relegated to those dim recesses of the memory where old, half-remembered news items occupy otherwise useless brain cells. For some inexplicable reason, save perhaps the innate grayness of the era, films from the '50s seem particularly susceptible to forgetability. In fact, there are only a few exceptions to this bizarre rule, among them Edward Murrow's better interviews and the lesser-known, but still timely film Come Back, Africa. Directed by Lionel Rogosin in 1959, Come...
...still forge a strong, coherent national energy policy which will encourage conservation, develop potentially economical energy technologies like solar and wind, and avoid excessive dependence on foreign imports or nuclear energy. But first political obstacles must be overcome: there will have to be less pork-barreling of useless energy projects in key states, less reliance on higher energy prices which pose equity and distribution problems, less resistance to use of alternative power sources. "We have some solutions within our grasp," a Senate staffer confided last week, "but they still need to be translated into political reality...
...will be overjoyed when (and if) the people of this country begin to realize that there is nothing mystical or omnipotent about Ted Kennedy. He is just one of the run-of-the-mill liberal Democrats who want to spend taxpayer money with big, useless Government programs. If we think taxes are bad now, just wait till we get a national health plan...
...sarcastic response: "I wish them lots of luck." Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, who heads one of the few democratic governments in Latin America, called on the Organization of American States for "cordial intervention" in Nicaragua "to seek a process of democratization and avert further useless bloodshed. No one has the right, no matter how powerful he is or how many weapons he has, to sacrifice the life of his nation...
...break into a boon. Last fall she fractured her right leg playing on a swing. Outfitted with a fiber-glass cast, she went back into the water. Unable to use her legs, she swam for six weeks using just her arms and shoulders; the strength gained from hauling a useless leg through lap after lap resulted in dramatically faster times in the butterfly and breast stroke...