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...your story on the "troubles" in Northern Ireland [Jan. 10], you constantly wander from the real issue: the right of Ireland to exist as an undivided nation. Problems there may be in uniting the two Irelands, but they are problems created by the British. If the I.R.A. fails, its members will be branded cutthroats and criminals, but if they succeed they will be national heroes. Isn't that always the way? Even the British must know that sooner or later they are going to have...
...Then at midnight, hundreds of thousands of little homemade rafts bearing the offerings are pushed or paddled far out into the waves. If the offering is "accepted" by lemanjá it does not wash back onto the shore and it spells a lucky New Year. Hours later the people wander away, and by dawn all that is left on the sand is a mountain of trash, including the forlorn offerings that returned...
Terrill found China in the grip of a "mental unity" created by "the myth of Mao thought." Yet in daily life he noted an "appealing imprecision. People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests...
...Wheels, without the geographical limitations of his earlier schlockbusters, Hotel and Airport, Hailey lets his high-octane narrative wander throughout the city: black-white confrontation in a parking lot, murder in a car factory, adultery in a motel. Eerily for me, many of the scenes take place in the shopping centers, auto dealerships and driveways of my home town of Birmingham, also home of the rocky marriage of Adam and Erica Trenton. Adam, the book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign...
...final cultural note: Millhouse is being shown in Boston at Allston's Video Theatre, a closed-circuit TV operation. Now true, what better way to wander down memory lane with the Nixon of our collective past than by means of the very medium which long ago salvaged his career. Still. I'm not all that happy with the proposition. Ninety-three minutes of uninterrupted TV can be a wearing experience, ultimately making De Antonio's film appear longer and less well constructed than it is. And, while I'm prepared to accept the current wisdom that video is indeed...