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Zalmie is wounded while performing in a USO show during World War One and returns home, maturing into a sort of Vito Corleone. America becomes the battleground, and Al Capone-style gang killings flash left and right, suspended in a vacuum, as "Sweet Georgia Brown" trumpets on the soundtrack. After Zalmie's wife is gunned down, he goes to his son Benny who is playing jazz with blacks, and pleads, "If you won't live my dream, at least live my life"--a characteristically melodramatic clinker that calls embarassing attention to itself...
...Prime Minister, 54, a conservative technocrat from one of Spain's most prominent political families, has tried to fill the power vacuum created by the resignation of Adolfo Suarez six weeks ago with what aides describe as "calm preoccupation." He has named a Cabinet of holdovers from the Suarez government, but he has also undertaken a round of consultations with opposition leaders...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, points to Vorenberg's moderate philosophy as critical in his new position of leadership. "American law today is looking for leadership. People like Chief Justice Warren Burger are trying to fill that vacuum in the wrong way. I think Jim Vorenberg will fill the void in a progressive, liberal way," he says...
...libertarian tradition of Aneurin Bevan to the hot-eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became devoid of serious ideas. "There was an ideological vacuum in the Labor Party," says Peter Shipley, a conservative expert on British revolutionaries. "Labor had come to a full stop. The extreme left claimed to have the answers and started to fill the vacuum." Says Alfred Sherman, director of Britain's conservative Center for Policy Studies: "The young have...
...board of directors, Griffiths' accomplishments eventually counted for little when weighed against his shortcomings as a manager of people. Instead of grooming his successor, a task that any corporate head must unavoidably confront as retirement approaches, Griffiths permitted the matter to languish unresolved. The result was a power vacuum that was soon filled by cabals of jockeying, maneuvering subordinates. Lamented one source close to the firm last week: "If you put two people together at this company, you will have three factions...