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...Thanks for taking a big fat load off my mind. For some time I'd been wondering whether this Nicholas von Hoffman [Jan. 5] was for real. I had been reading the product of his labors with horrified fascination, astounded that here we had an instant expert on absolutely everything and wincing at his diatribes against fat, contented, middle-class whites...
...conductor of the Super Chiefs is Coach Hank Stram, a spry, spruce little fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 205 Ibs.) who looks like a Cheshire cat, dresses like Cecil Beaton, talks like Otto von Bismarck and operates like Jimmy Valentine. "Every team," he says, "should have its own style that reflects the personality of the coach." The Kansas City Chiefs are a mirror image of both sides of Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince...
...least astute enough to fathom one thing about the center of Catholicism: it abounds in rumor and thrives on hearsay. "In place of this river of unreliable information, we need authentic news which is really important," read a 1943 report to the foreign ministry in Berlin from Ernst von Weizsacker, who as Ambassador to the Holy See also directed a German spy network. One person assigned to ferret out the authentic news for the Germans was an apostate priest named Georg Elling. who came to Rome ostensibly to study the life of St. Francis of Assisi. What really interested...
Thus Y. A. F., the newborn child, had two heads, and they would not face the same direction for long. Buckley in his role as godfather to the organization, stressed traditionalist values. Others, rallying to the teachings of economists Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, and Murray Rothbard, stressed free enterprise. Buckley encouraged a faith in "tradition for its own sake" and plugged for anti-communism, Christianity, law and order, and the flag. Others in the organization idealized laissez-faire capitalism, anti-authoritarianism, and extreme individualism...
...seeds of evil planted at this banquet eventually take root during the film's two-hour 20-minute running time to produce what Visconti obviously hoped would be an allegory of prewar German history. Although the Von Essenbecks appear to have been modeled rather closely on the Krupps, The Damned is about as potent a parable of Germany as Wagner's Ring cycle, which it outdoes in zestful vulgarity. The actors all perform with an unbridled bravado, the cinematography is properly bilious, and there are enough sex scenes-a good many of them homosexual-to get the movie...