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...inflation, which is currently running at about 10%. While Trudeau sought to blame external factors for Canada's mushrooming cost of living, Stanfield called for firm and prompt wage-price controls. The government's stand on inflation, he argued, was "cynical and incredible . . . a message of despair." A government report last month disclosed that prices in Canada rose more rapidly in 1973 than in the U.S., Britain, West Germany and France...
...Castle in Sweden, a play she wrote in 1963, and transported them to France. They are the twins Sebastian and Eleanor van Milhem, a leggy, radiantly idle, thoroughly decadent pair. In Scars on the Soul she permits them to coast through the usual romantic adventures, playing around with love, despair and death. From time to time, however, she interrupts the narrative with private memories and uneasy rhetorical questions. Samples: "Who reads Proust?" and "What about you, dear readers, what are your lives like...
...White House last week they were most worried that all the swear words that Nixon used would upset a lot of Americans who thought he rarely cussed. That concern is really almost meaningless in the current context. What produces despair is that men given the responsibility for doing so much for this nation would spend so much time and energy contemplating the violation of that trust...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They. People are often "I was so much older then" about this movie: They like it at the time; they've grown out of it now; too self-consciously nihilistic and existential and despair-in-Atlantic-City. Maybe not, though. The dance marathon allegory might become tiresome except for the brilliance of Jane Fond's performance. She's best at jabbing out with neurotic intelligence, sharp enough to project that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda...
Once relatively calm and collected, Patty's parents are showing signs of strain. Catherine Hearst seems despondent; her reaction to the bank-robbery pictures reportedly was, "Doesn't my Patty look thin and tired?" Even Randolph Hearst has begun to despair. "We have hope," he says, "but it is not too bright now." He is willing to clutch at any straw and search anywhere for an intermediary who can put him in touch with the S.L.A. He recently visited Clifford Jefferson, a black lifer at Vacaville known as "Death Row Jeff' who knew Cinque very well. Hearst has even talked...