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Maybe the moviemakers think the audiences like feeling out of control, that they like having the responsibility of thinking wrested from them. The TV grinds on so mechanically that watching is like lying half asleep--mildly diverting but with precious few surprises. Anyone who's seen a lot of television can check out a show for ten minutes and tell you what's going to happen for the rest of the action. They're practiced experts at predicting outcomes because the stuff on the tube has strict boundaries; it flows judiciously in the Nielsen main stream. What sustains a movie...
...reason for this painful loss of precious materiel was the very suddenness of Thieu's decision to abandon several provinces. Soldiers had no time to organize orderly retreats. In northern Quang Tri province, one of the army's best regional defense groups suffered a 15% desertion rate just before the Communist attack on the once lovely Hue; most of the deserters were concerned about the fate of their families. The retreat from Hue reached the frightening proportions of a stampede. Soldiers left behind 105-mm. howitzers and threw away rifles...
...husband was up in the attic trying to figure out where the old staircase went," explained Catharine Coster of Newtown, Conn. "He pulled layers and layers of wallpaper off the attic walls looking." What Retired Executive Allan Coster eventually discovered was not a secret passage but precious pentimento. Still on the walls, beneath 40 years of papering, was the doodling of Humorist James Thurber, who had lived in the house in the 1930s. There is "no question" that the art work is that of the former New Yorker writer and cartoonist. Says Helen Thurber, the humorist's widow...
...well as resolve impasses over tax and energy proposals. Although the dispute could arise again in 1977, the precedent toward easier cloture has now been set. Sentiment seems to be running against the defenders of the filibuster, including the late Walter Lippmann who once praised it as "a precious usage, invaluable to the preservation of freedom." On the ascendancy is the judgment expressed by Woodrow Wilson, who as President argued that the filibuster allowed "a little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own," to make the Senate "the only legislative body in the world which cannot...
...stage makes different demands, and in the present instance Ullmann is simply not up to them. This is not entirely her fault. Her marvelously expressive face and luminous blue eyes perform exquisite miracles in camera closeups. In the vast spaces of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater these precious attributes, and their power to move, are lost...