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SOMETHING for Everyone follows a predictable fairy-tale formula for its plot: impoverished Countess von Ornstein and her two children are restored to wealth by a dashing adventurer named Conrad in a fable which ends with a grand wedding. The lubricant of the story, however, is sex: sex perverted, sex sublimated into aggression, sex released in libidinal fantasy. The result of Harold Prince's debut directorial effort for the screen is a minor masterpiece of black comedy...
...finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate. For many years, liberals have been in favor of expanding and improving social security; would it make sense to refer to them as "Junker liberals" merely because the first social security system was instituted in the regime of Otto von Bismarck...
...terrorists specialize in kidnaping and assassinations. The 1968 murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein by F.A.R. terrorists was the brutal inaugural of the diplomatic kidnapings in Latin America. Last April, when the government balked at freeing 24 jailed terrorists in return for the kidnaped West German Ambassador, Karl von Spreti, the F.A.R. proved itself ready to kill again...
Algeria is becoming an ever more popular meeting ground. The 44 Brazilian terrorists who were released from jail and flown to Algiers after the kidnaping of West German Ambassador Ehren von...
...NASA would never see people go hungry so that we could buy another gadget for space," von Braun said, "but a few billion dollars more a year would not embarrass us. We can help solve many of the earth's problems such as weather prediction and the location of natural resources," he added...