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...stashed her braces and auditioned for the first of her 200 TV commercials. Now 28 and a seasoned cinema bunkmate (appearing with Al Pacino in Serpico, with Michael Sarrazin in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), the actress has sunk her straightened teeth into a new role. Cast as a neo-Mata Hari in The Next Man, Sharpe sets out to wipe out a Saudi Arabian Minister of State, played by Sean Cannery, 46. Would-be assassin, however, quickly turns amorist. "It's a love story dipped in oil," coos Cornelia, who hints that her days as a femme fatale...
...liberals and conservatives were alike in their Viet Nam-cold war complicity, trashed the liberal scene. The Commentary crowd, including men like Pat Moynihan, recoiled in shock from leftists who extolled the totalitarian "social justice" of a Cuba or a China. To Irving Kristol, 20th century liberalism has become neo-socialism, a creed "more interested in equality than in liberty." Critic Alfred Kazin concludes that liberal and conservative are "fraudulent and intellectually useless terms." Why not, asks another, declare a moratorium on both words, since both have become dulled, "even as insults...
...Museum of Fine Arts, the only (unintentionally) piece of neo-Egyptian architecture in Boston, has mummies and much more buried in its cavernous complexity. Unless you're like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who would never go into the British Museum because she was afraid the mummies would rise from the dead and get her, the MFA is a good place to dig for exhibits. These days, the best finds are Anamorphoses (through November 29, more on that next week) and Printmaking in Germany...
...been one of the most important weapons of American intervention abroad. The bulk of its covert operations and funds have been directed toward interfering with free elections all over the world and toward providing military and financial support for dissident groups favored by American policy makers, such as the neo-fascist Italian general Miceli. The responsibility for these abuses--interfering with elections, directing coups and assassinations, training foreign secret police in torture techniques--lies with the administrations that have directed foreign policy, and particularly with Kissinger during his tenure as National Security Advisor. Hence the CIA cannot be reformed merely...
...overshadowed Communism as a central issue in the election campaign. Politicians warned of a renewed "strategy of tension" among extremist groups to foment disorder and influence voters: in addition to last week's triple killing, the violence has already included the murder of a Communist demonstrator following a neo-Fascist rally, street battles between extreme right and left, and the fire-bombing of a Rome movie theater used for neo-Fascist rallies...