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...make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly. These days Sellers can most regularly be found on television, pitching...
SENIORITY SYSTEM. Reducing the authority of arbitrary and aging committee chairmen was generally applauded, though a number of panelists cautioned that this has created a dispersal of power and a leadership vacuum that could work to the advantage of a strong President. To prevent this, panelists argued, either the party leaders in both chambers must act more forcefully or the unwieldy party caucus must assert itself...
Perry finds some arresting images to underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order...
...Secretary of States goal it is father to end hostilities and relieve international tension. Thus there is no long range peace plan under consideration which takes into account the Palestinian question. "Step by step" takes place not in the context of an overall scheme for peace, but in a vacuum. Also, Kissinger has ignored the necessity for Arabs and Israelis to negotiate directly, at the same table, and has instead created a situation where the Arabs, particularly the Egyptians, approach the problem as though the United States is Israel's spokesman. Due to Kissinger's obsessive desire to have...
With summer approaching, the volatile Middle East has seemed to be nearing the flashpoint for yet another war. For one thing, the failure of Henry Kissinger's round of shuttle diplomacy in March left a dangerous diplomatic vacuum. Even more dangerous, time was running out for the United Nations peace-keeping forces on the Golan Heights and in Sinai. When the U.N.'s six-month mandate in Sinai expired in April, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat agreed to extend it only until July 24. With a similar mandate for the U.N. Golan force due to expire this...