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Mitterrand was quick to retaliate. Accusing Giscard of "verbal violence," the Socialist leader turned a campaign appearance in Nevers into a fuming Marxist defense. "Don't insult [leftist voters] who want to live in freedom from the anguish of unemployment!" he challenged, addressing Giscard. Preying on the President's upper-class background and aristocratic style, Mitterrand went on: "I remind Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing that the people conquered freedom almost two centuries ago against the old feudal or der, and against the feudalism of money, and that the people are fighting for free dom today against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Tough Brawl to the Finish | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...interested in West Point or Annapolis, even a list of Missouri women who hope to become engineers. The student most often sought, though, according to the College Board's Darrell Morris, "is likely to be from the Northeast, in the upper third of his high school class, with verbal scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test between 400 and 600, intending to major in the liberal arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rah! Rah! SELL! SELL! | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Jeanne Affelder is excellent as Meg Dillon., the feisty madame of the whorehouse. With admirable restraint. Affelder gives Meg a touching quality of tarnished dignity. While her early verbal jousts with McCue lack the necessary sarcastic edge, her climatic argument with him in the third act beautifully reveats Meg's reluctant tenderness. As Lestile, the young British hostage. Nick wyse finds the right balance of cynicism and naivete. Like the tenants of the lodging he loves his country, but he doesn't fully comprehend the war-especially when confronted with the possibility of his own execution. Wyse captures Leslie...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Celtic Twilight | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

...Haig jetted off to consult officials in Rome, Madrid, London, Paris and Bonn, there was some concern that the Secretary of State-indeed, the Reagan Administration itself-might be engaging in verbal overkill in warning about the dangers of Soviet expansionism. In his meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem, for example, Haig speculated that the Soviet Union might have inspired the Syrian assault in Lebanon possibly to divert attention from the Polish crisis. The consensus of Western diplomats in the Middle East is that the Syrians acted on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vicar Goes Abroad | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Alas, Fellini's inexhaustible stock of socko images still wows the impressionable, and forces everyone else to pay heed as his boring yet insistent voice announces verbal and visual abstractions as profundities. He justifies the gaucheries and incoherence of City of Women by passing it off as a dream work-a cliché from the time movies were as short and silent as this one is long and loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Garage Sale | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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