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...aware of this than Charles Franklin Luce, chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison, the world's biggest electric utility. Before coming to Con Ed. Luce dealt with environmental problems as Under Secretary of the Interior. An ardent outdoorsman, he now finds himself cast as a villain by New Yorkers, who have long regarded Con Edison as a blatant polluter. Last week they were incensed over Con Ed's request for a 14% rate increase, its second in three years. Con Ed is in financial trouble, much of it aggravated by a longstanding inefficiency that discourages...
Claude (Claude Berri) is the little Jewish boy of The Two of Us grown to physical if not emotional maturity. His inamorata Isabelle (Elisabeth Wiener) is with child, but Claude is no hit-and-run villain. Wistful, tentative, he may be unsure of the proper words to say, but he knows enough to do the right thing...
...nation's top health post (TIME, July 4). Still remembered are the association's relentless fights of yesteryear against Medicare and Medicaid. Opponents also recall its past opposition to group practice and its efforts to limit medical-school enrollment. Thus the A.M.A. has made itself a visible villain, and is blamed, somewhat unfairly, for the soaring cost of medical care, which is rising at a rate more than double that of the cost of living...
SOMETIMES DURING the course of Agnes Varda's Les Creatures, the hero and villain of the piece sit down beside a series of television screens and begin to play and odd sort of futuristic chess. The game's pieces represent characters in the village of the film. When two of them meet on the chess board, they meet in real life and are observed on the television screens. The villain has at his disposal a trap which, when it hovers over any one of the characters, permits him to play havoc with that character's emotions...
...REMARKING a 1914 secret-avenger thriller, Georges Franju has capitalized on our distance from its prewar society. Judex (1963) is designed to lay bare the moral content of people's actions-- of the hero's as much as the villain's. At the same time Franju's treatment makes us marvel at the beauty of those actions, the beauty of everything that happens in this world of the past...