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...married life. Brooks just cannot let it alone. Add to this a generous quota of misogyny (lots of beauty parlor closeups of fat thighs, wrinkled faces, and housewives struggling into girdles), and the result is a film as misguided and one-sided as the marriage it struggles to portray...
When taken as a blanket explanation for the great preponderance of ideology (or anti-ideology) generated by the American public, the theories of "false consciousness" are ideological blinders. At best, they portray the very people whose banner I claim to carry as programmed cretins, hopelessly duped by ploys that are very transparent...
Debate Center. The arguments over priorities in the spending of the Government's limited funds may become sharper as the second session of the Congress opens in an election year. Democrats will want to portray the Administration as shirking domestic needs, and Republicans will try to blame Democrats in Congress for free spending and inflation. In his State of the Union address, the President is expected to emphasize his determination to alleviate such domestic ills as deterioration of the environment and inadequate supervision of profit-making concerns that abuse consumers. But how much more money can be diverted from...
...where he remains by far the most popular political figure. As an ambassador, Dubček will be duty-bound to carry out the orders of his political opponents in Prague. In the highly unlikely event that Dubček should decide to defect to the West, Husak could portray the act as one of political treachery...
...play ran in London and New York until 1964 when Miller left it to direct several BBC productions, in-clouding "Alice in Wonderland," a modern adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic. "I tried to portray the feeling of a Victorian childhood in it," he said "I wanted a Wordsworthian interpretation, connecting her loss of innocence with the dream of adolescence. I'm not sure if it was right for television. It was very somber and quite literate...