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...Seoul last week, TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel found an Orwellian atmosphere. "When you enter the door to the biggest newspaper, Dong-a Ilbo," he cabled, "you have to watch out that you don't get scraped in the face by the bayonets that two grim-looking paratroopers hold crossed on their M16s. For obvious reasons, it was hard to get much comment from Koreans. But passers-by appeared visibly startled when they saw the big American-made M48 tank menacingly pointing its gun from the entrance of the National Assembly. A soldier waved the bayonet...
...house of the title is the Banque Mercure, a private bank for rich speculators flourishing in Paris during the grim days of 1931. (By no coincidence there was a famous whorehouse of the same name.) To the financial world it is known simply as Bertillon because its presiding and all-powerful genius is sexy, elegant Jules Bertillon. Jules buys when the rest of the world is selling and he and his clients get rich as Europe sinks...
Dubious Shelter. Caldwell's grim view is still being tested. The art of the expose has not suddenly disappeared with the decision. The Chicago Tribune, for instance, recently revealed massive vote fraud in Illinois (TIME, Sept. 25). Moreover, the Supreme Court told Congress and the state legislatures that they could write statutes giving full or partial immunity to newsmen under a variety of circumstances. A House Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier last week completed hearings on a number of bills that would give newsmen considerable protection, at least in U.S. Government investigations. A new federal...
Wednesday's Child treats the subject of incipient schizophrenia with grim understanding. The focus of this clinical dramatization is Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), young daughter of a lower-middle-class British family, who has been more than usually bruised by the trials of adolescence. Her parents, their marriage long a stalemate of uneasily repressed hostility, commit her to the care of a therapist whose attempts to reach Janice are thwarted by his dismissal from the hospital. Wednesday's Child strains credulity here. The doctor's reasonable, low-key therapy sessions hardly seem radical enough to get him dismissed...
...been recruited for the cast. Thus the audience is invited to have a good laugh at the gargoyle visage of Miles, chortle over Dallesandro's near-autistic blankness, and revel in the antics of an obese motel owner, and a schizophrenic lesbian. The lazy profanity and the grungy, grim quality of Heat's ambidextrous sexuality will be familiar and predictable to Warhol addicts. What is despicable about Heat is the way it both flaunts and mocks the grotesqueries of its cast, who seem generally neither to notice nor greatly care...