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Many of the remaining pieces make ingenious use of clay, transparent plastics or just plain pencil; only a few, like some cluttered and drab collages, are disappointing. As though filling in for an absent receptionist, an old woman of papier mache sits at her door-side table. The woman stares catatonically out of pale blue eyeballs and you can sidle right up and stare back without feeling embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals...
Nessen's real difficulties bloomed during the Asian trip. One reporter described his performance as a "disaster." Nessen, for instance, was absent when word came of the Ford-Brezhnev arms agreement because he was on a tour of Vladivostok. But Nessen's kowtowing statement that "the President will return home in triumph," and his condescending remark that the journalists "were dazzled ... amazed" by the arms agreement, really roused them. Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief...
...believe in the changes they see and feel, however facile and temporary they may be. For the first time in years, Bergman is dealing with the specifics of modern society. When love breaks down the modern institutions are the primary cause; the incorporeal concerns Bergman can usually convey are absent. So this film brings forward no sense of awe. The spiritual sense is cut out from underneath--what's left are the rocky, excessive emotions bred by the petty, inchoate sexual relations of a sexually and politically unequal society. Bergman has never isolated these passions before. For the past...
...campaign without well-defined national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...
Factional Friction. The Republican leadership, too, will experience new strains. Now thoroughly outgunned, it faces some factional friction within its own ranks. Arizona's John Rhodes, the minority leader, won comfortably but has been too often absent from his floor duties to suit some colleagues. The third-ranking House leader, John Anderson of Illinois, probably will be challenged by conservatives who resent his sharp attacks on Nixon...