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...confirming Slovene Stane Dolanc, 52, as its secretary. Thus Dolanc was reappointed as a member of Tito's inner circle of advisers, and in the long term, he could be a possible successor. In the short term, the front runner for Tito's title as President is Edvard Kardelj, 68, preeminent among eight members of Yugoslavia's collective state presidency and the party's chief theoretician. Kardelj, however, is ailing and may be no more than a prospective transitional figure...
...12th International Tournee of Animation is coming to Carpenter Center, and you ought to get over there too. And tonight (Thursday), British filmmaker Peter Watkins will introduce his documentary Edvard Munch. This is one of the most successful attempts ever made as cinematically depicting the life of an artist, with documentary as well as conventional narrative footage. The life and work of one of the twentieth century's greatest expressionist artists--unappreciated during his lifetime--takes three hours to cover, but they're highly stimulating, educational and visually rewarding. And it's free. Watkins is one of the cinema...
Carrillo then flew to Yugoslavia, hoping to discuss his U.S. trip with Marshal Tito. The aging marshal was too fatigued to see him and begged off, but Carrillo dined with Yugoslavia's No. 2 man, Edvard Kardelj, who was just back from a successful visit to Washington. Next it was off to Rome for talks with Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, leader of Western Europe's largest Communist Party. In deference to Berlinguer, who has been careful not to antagonize the Kremlin despite his own protestations of independence, Carrillo shrugged off the snub he had received in Moscow...
...Norwegian artist Edvard Munch lived for 80 years and painted for most of them. His work-striking, fearful, startling-was the vanguard of expressionism; indeed, Munch is, with Van Gogh, frequently considered the progenitor of the whole movement. Peter Watkins' film of Munch's life concentrates solely on the artist's tormented early years...
Watkins attempts too much: he wants Edvard Munch to be biography and documentary, criticism and speculation, psychological analysis and lyric flight...