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Donald Sutherland is currently starring as Paul Mazurky's alter ego in Alex in Wonderland, a film directed by Mazursky. Alex tells of its director's efforts to come to grips with a second film after his premiere success in last year's Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. In Alex's best scene, Alex Sutherland-playing-Mazurky) visits a producer (actually played by Mazurky) who tries, with the aid of wines, a proferred trip to Paris, and a Chagall off his office wall, to encourage Alex in a couple of hot, new properties...
...there herbicide residues in the ground in the sprayed areas which will prevent or alter the regrowth of vegetation? The HAC is uncertain. They do know that bamboo growth may choke off hardwood regeneration and that crabs and weeds may prevent mangrove reforestation, but little is known of the fate of the chemicals themselves...
Previously, one feels, "corporation land" existed merely as a nasty abstraction for Mailer; now he is bearing witness to its most impressive achievement and is forced to alter his understanding of America. He feels a large contempt for the counterculture, "an army of outrageously spoiled children who cooked with piss and vomit while the Wasps were quietly moving from command of the world to command of the moon." He is not sure whether the astronauts are the "last of the old or the first of the new men," but he is certain that the American spirit is moving into...
...violence at this time, when Ulster's Protestant-dominated government has begun to move toward meeting the legitimate demands of the Catholics? The militants apparently have three objectives: 1) to curtail the frequent Protestant demonstrations and, particularly, to alter official plans for this year's "Ulster '71" celebration, marking the 50th anniversary of Ireland's partition; 2) to provoke the army into overreacting against Catholic rioters, particularly children, in order to win over Catholic moderates who have been increasingly alienated by the militants' bloody tactics; and 3) to prod the populace into a general uprising...
Tillinghast staged the demonstration to show the industry's progress in curbing air pollution by modifying jet-engine combustion chambers to burn a leaner fuel on takeoff. This eliminates smoke, though not invisible gases like carbon monoxide. TWA is spending $2,000,000 to alter its engines this way; all U.S. airlines are pledged to achieve smokeless takeoffs by 1973, which may cost the lines as much as $100 million...