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...page message calling for the release from Quebec jails of 23 political prisoners. The Front demanded that the freed prisoners be flown in a Canadian plane either to Cuba or Algeria, and that a "voluntary tax" of $500,000 in gold bullion be delivered to the aircraft in nine Brink's armored trucks as ransom. Otherwise, the terrorists vowed, they "would not hesitate to get rid of" the Irish-born British official within 48 hours...
...descriptions merely skim the surface of Bob and Ray's comedy. They are superior cliché kidders and satirists of the first order; they record things almost exactly as they are heard and seen every day-and then they take that one subtle, savage, farcical step over the brink into the inane...
Only three months ago, Bernard Cornfeld's beleaguered I.O.S., Ltd., the biggest of the foreign mutual fund empires, teetered on the brink of collapse. Last week financial misfortune struck the second largest offshore investment complex, Gramco Management Ltd. and its USIF,* Real Estate. Swamped by the equivalent of a run on the bank, the directors of the Nassau-based USIF "temporarily" suspended sales and redemptions, thus freezing the assets of 23,000 European, Latin American and Asian investors who had put up $276 million. The closedown leaves the future of the fund in considerable doubt; to some degree...
...violence: "Too many Americans have begun to justify violence as a means of effecting change or safeguarding traditions. We believe it urgent that Americans of all convictions draw back from the brink . . . Students who bomb and burn are criminals. Police and National Guardsmen who needlessly shoot or assault students are criminals. All who applaud these criminal acts share in their evil. We must declare a national cease-fire...
Weeks of wandering in the Soviet Union bring Giovanna to the brink of exhaustion. There she finds a little wooden house. Inside are wide-eyed, redheaded Mascia (Ludmila Savelyeva) and her little daughter. Yes, si, da (one has his choice in this dubbed babel), Mascia is Antonio's Russian wife. An evening train pulls into the little town -and see! It is the bigamist. Giovanna glares at him. Mastroianni, touching bottom in a long and honorable career, gives his impression of a spaniel. Weeping, Giovanna boards the shuttle and heads back to Italy...