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...Verité. "I may not be the best adman in the country," says the rumpled, easy-mannered Rafshoon, "but I am the foremost authority on Jimmy Carter in terms of advertising and how it best suits him." The collaboration between the two goes back to 1966, when Rafshoon handled Carter's unsuccessful race for the Georgia Governor's mansion. This year, with the aid of just two writers, two airtime buyers and a tiny office staff, Rafshoon waged a year-long ad blitz in 38 states to win his man the Democratic nomination, preparing and airing commercials without...
There have already been quite a few movies about rock 'n' roll: concert films like Woodstock, lightweight dramatic vehicles tailored-to-measure for pop stars, documentaries offering cinema-verité glimpses of Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones. There have even been a couple of films that used the world of rock as a metaphor for power and ruin: for in stance, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (TIME...
...obsessive and tormented, eludes her. Less introverted than preoccupied, Tuesday seems as lost as Maria herself, although the only good moment in the film is hers. "See the pyramids all wet with rain / Cross the ocean in a silver plane" Maria croons, stoned crazy in an old 16-mm. verité documentary of Carter's, and in those few seconds Weld touches some of Maria's torment and vulnerability. Perkins has a little more success in the role of the producer, which is less complex and demanding. Both he and Weld struggle to bring some depth of feeling...
...February day in 1937, Benito Mussolini sent a pickax crashing into the pavement of the Piazza Bocca della Verità to break ground for Rome's first subway. A world war and his own inglorious death interrupted the work Mussolini began. When these greater events were not threatening its progress, Italy's archaeologists poked into the subway excavation and held up the work, to make sure that the tunnelers were not destroying any buried relics of antiquity. But somehow, despite all handicaps, Rome's subway got built. Last week, after 18 years and $20 million...
Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...