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Still stranger than the Rocky-Rose partnership was their choice of a savior: Democrat Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 62, the man who had served three terms as mayor, from 1954 to 1965. As mayor, Wagner made some advances in civil rights, increased the police force and kept peace with the unions; but in many other areas he exhibited a glacial inertia, and he left the city with more potholes in its streets and more holes in its civic pride than he had inherited. Indeed, Rockefeller and Rose supported Lindsay in 1965 as the man who could best "save" New York City...
...help his chances of re-election next year, Rocky wants a friend in New York's city hall-someone who will neither get into embarrassing fights with him nor challenge him for the governorship. He worried that three possible candidates for mayor might be less amenable than Wagner. They are: 1) Lindsay, who could always change his mind and run again, 2) Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative and much decorated former policeman, who in his Bronx office dispenses help to complaining constituents in the style of the Godfather, and 3) Republican State Senator John Marchi of Staten Island...
...known who first dreamed the seemingly impossible dream of enlisting Wagner to carry the standards of Rockefeller and Rose. Wagner says that he bumped into Rocky three weeks ago at the première of the movie Lost Horizon (also, appropriately, a remake), and from their conversation emerged the vision of Wagner's recapturing his own Shangri-La as mayor. As Wagner tells it: "He said he thought it would be a great thing if I ran. And he added: 'Gee, we fought, but at least you kept your word.' " Liberal Rose, who figured that Wagner...
...played here by the international beauty Helmut Berger, Ludwig never consults a plan, hectors an architect or drives a construction foreman crazy. Visconti doesn't even make anything humanly or dramatically interesting out of Ludwig's other major project-rescuing Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard) from his debts and subsidizing the première of Tristan and the beginning of work on the Ring Cycle. Such activities imply a mysterious will and energy that cries out for interpretive speculation; but this would interfere with Visconti's simple view of Ludwig as a moony homosexual victim...
...without replacing them with anything new. In reaction against anarchy, people are gradually returning to the traditional. "To put it another way, there are no young girls around, so in order to remain modern somehow, we are putting our cultural grandmothers into hot pants. In music, for instance, Richard Wagner a few years ago had been almost written off as a Nazi and Chopin had been dismissed as a kind of 19th century pop composer. Now those two composers are intoxicating the same people who five years ago were smoking hashish...