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Director Dusan Vukotic's parodies of TV commercials, bureaucracy and the like may be daring back home, but they sink slowly in the West. And the film's whimsy is often as thick as wet sand. Still, Vukotic's insights into child psychology are often ingenious, and his blend of animation and bright, appealing color occasionally makes The Seventh Continent look like a feat of Klee...
...Soviet Union knows very well how to deal with dissidence from its disaffected artists and writers. Their criticism is dismissed as the predictable plaints of those whom Lenin scornfully characterized as the khliupiki or "intellectual wet rags." The dissidents themselves are sent to asylums or to jail. It is a far different matter, however, when the dissenter is an honored, brilliant and necessary figure in the Soviet Establishment...
...Riverine's little boats would slip into the maze of marshlands for long patrols, far from the medical and military aid of the mother ship anchored in one of the larger rivers. The most obvious means of supply was by helicopter, but most of the Delta is too wet and soft to support the weight of a chopper...
Some Republicans were dismayed by Nixon's advice. Most, however, agreed with his political reasoning. Asked Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "Is the obligation of the United States to wet-nurse the rest of the world...
...wet nurse, the U.S. seems to be running dry. It gives less in foreign aid, as a percentage of the nation's wealth, than France, Australia, Portugal, The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Moreover, the Agency for International Development makes a persuasive case that U.S. self-interest dictates a strong program...