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LIFE OF BRIAN does not do the job on the gospels that Holy Grail did on the Arthurian legends. The scope is more timid, the technique less audacious. We had a right to expect better, funnier, or at least wilder. The more slavishly Monty Python tries to follow conventions--the more they tailor their films to play in Peoria--the less anyone will laugh at them. The film remains only a funny shadow of what might have been--like Jesus Christ beating a dead parrot...
...news, TIME in recent years has been giving its readers a bonus: excerpts from major books of international consequences-the memoirs of Anwar Sadat and Theodore H. White, a study of Chiang Ching (Mme. Mao Tse-tung). But never before has TIME offered an excerpt comparable in importance or scope to the one that will run in three parts beginning next week: Henry Kissinger's long awaited memoirs. TIME'S readers will be the first in the U.S. to receive a serialization of the book...
...other Arabs, and perhaps to attract Jordan and to divide the Palestinians in the occupied territories into rejectionists and gradualists. But such an agreement is not likely to be endorsed by the other Arabs, including Jordan, insofar as it will most probably leave East Jerusalem outside the scope of the autonomy scheme, leave the issue of Israeli settlements unresolved, and continue not to grant explicitly to the Palestinians the right of self-determination at the end of five years...
What the U.S. needs, argues McLaughlin, is a national water policy, one that calls for considerable participation by businessmen. The Government should identify the scope of the problem, set conservation and recycling standards, then offer incentives. Perhaps there could be tax breaks for buying conservation equipment, or tax penalties for waste. Most important, the Government should fix goals for private people to meet - but not dictate how to meet them...
...handed down with the decision, Burger emphasized that the Gannett case involved only a pretrial hearing, not a trial. Since Burger's vote to allow judges to close off pretrial hearings was decisive in making up the court's five-man majority, his opinion should limit the scope of the decision. The confusion arises from some broad language in the majority opinion, written by Justice Potter Stewart and signed by four other Justices, including Burger. It flatly states that members of the public have no constitutional right to attend criminal trials. Technically that language is dicta-comments that...