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...Asia in pursuit of an assassin named Scaramanga who gets $1 million per contract for the use of his gold weapon. There is the usual action (fights, pursuits, assignations), the usual bantamweight grotesqueries. Scaramanga's evil henchman is a dwarf, and Scaramanga himself (Christopher Lee), an unusually unimpressive villain, would be a dead cinch to spot on a beach since he has three nipples. Nothing much happens to any of these characters that has not happened before, and better. Maud Adams and Britt Ekland do, however, make a couple of mildly decorative, active heroines in a series notably short...
...year long readers contributed an avalanche of Man of the Year suggestions. Richard Nixon received the most votes - both as hero and villain. Other choices ranged from Chicken Tycoon Frank Perdue and Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali to the beagle on our recent pet cover (on the grounds that the U.S. is going to the dogs). Within TIME, the process of selection began in early October when the managing editor invited other editors and bureau chiefs to submit nominations. A remarkable degree of consensus resulted: along with a number of New York-based editors, 18 bureau chiefs round the world mentioned...
Though Richard Nixon may still be a villain to many Americans, there are probably few citizens so spiteful as to dance on his casket if he were to lose his fight with phlebitis. Yet that contingency was troubling an otherwise judicious commentator last week. William Raspberry, in his Washington Post column, speculated about whether Nixon should receive a state funeral or a modest ceremony commensurate with his inglorious exit from office. A state affair, Raspberry warned, might result in "the inflaming of anti-Nixon passions and renewed political strife." Raspberry worried whether "someone will be sufficiently hateful and tasteless...
Officious Clerk. Above all, The Palace Guard tells precisely how H.R. Haldeman, clearly the villain of the book, schemed to silence or neutralize the voices of moderation and close the Oval Office door to all but his own favorites. At first, say Rather and Gates, Haldeman tentatively tested his influence by telling Burns to leave a note, rather than re-enter Nixon's office to deliver an afterthought. The dignified Burns considered it unseemly to argue with this "officious clerk"-and Haldeman was emboldened. When he personally pulled his U.C.L.A. classmate, fellow Eagle Scout and prot...
Enter the villain, Basil Yanko, a Yankee basilisk whose mysterious firm, Creative Systems, runs Harlequin's computer operations. He makes two announcements to Paul Desmond, Harlequin's loyal aide: 1) he is prepared to buy out Harlequin, for a suspiciously high figure, and 2) computer print-outs show that Harlequin himself has embezzled $15 million from his own company. It is clear, of course, that Yanko and his minions (this is the sort of novel in which the villain has minions) have framed Harlequin. But can this be proved to the international banking community? And what about Yanko...