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MOST SCROOGELIKE CORPORATE BEHAVIOR: The networks' insistence on spoiling Christmas before it gets started by scheduling annual reruns (some for the eighth and tenth times) of animated fairy tales that were lousy to begin with. Like the broken-down crooners propped up in front of too many holiday "specials" this time of year, the cartoons cannot be said to improve with...
...their desperate, headlong flight, some had waded or swum across the Cunene River into South West Africa (Namibia). Many had made the perilous journey in fishing trawlers down the reef-ridden coast to Walvis Bay. Still others had crossed the desert in broken-down trucks and cars. Then, beginning five months ago, a massive air-and sea-lift returned them to their native country (TIME, Sept. 22). By last week 300,000 of them had arrived in Portugal -os retornados (the returned), the refugees who are the bitter harvest of Angola's civil...
...worst new program on the tube. Viewers are asked to believe that a glum Jackie Cooper, who can scarcely work up the energy to articulate his lines, is an aggressive TV newsman. In the first hour he 1) rescued a child trapped on a cliff, 2) salvaged a broken-down silent-screen star, 3) rehabilitated a suicidal paraplegic ex-rodeo performer, 4) went to jail in defense of the newsman's right to protect his sources and 5) persuaded one of them to come forward and give evidence at a murder trial while 6) rescuing her from incipient alcoholism...
...public taste should deem La Dentellière a "bad" Goncourt, the odds are that at least 200,000 Frenchmen will be reading what the author calls a "novel of noncommunication" and what one reviewer more fully described as the account of an unhappy love affair between a broken-down aristocratic student and a working-class beautician who goes mad when he drops her out of boredom...
...from the very start), rather than in the nature of his life, in the horror of a man as he watches the utter wasteland of his life come crashing through his last remaining Maginot line of self-delusion. The crucial point here is that Willy is not just a broken-down salesman--he never was a salesman. For he finds the proposition which his brother Charley puts to him, that "the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell," intolerably painful. But Goodman plays Willy as a man of no more substance than the dreams...