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Security checks are stiff because a few Congressmen insist that they be. Many of the hard-liners are liberal Democrats. New York City's Elizabeth Holtzman still demands that anybody guilty of political repression in Viet Nam be barred from settling in the U.S. But just what constitutes "guilt"-and how to prove it-is highly debatable. Detroit's John Conyers hangs tough for strict regulation of the refugee influx because his unemployed constituents are concerned that the Vietnamese will increase the competition for jobs. The other major log jam is the lack of sponsors. Up until...
...emphasis on "vigilance" may alienate many Koreans from his regime. Last month he issued a series of stern decrees that put the country under a "wartime emergency system" and increased the considerable powers of the police and Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Presidential emergency measure No. 9, for example, threatens stiff prison sentences for any act "denying, opposing, distorting or defaming the constitution." Such regulations have so intimidated the South Korean press that no newspaper dared carry the story that Park's party had demanded a gift of $10 million from Gulf Oil-and actually received $4 million. The news...
...movie is a fairly brutal character study up until the time Popeye finally, albeit tenuously, shakes off his habit. Then, as Doyle goes out for revenge, Frankenheimer changes gear smoothly into the sort of supercharged action adventure that gives memories of the original French Connection some stiff competition. Doyle and his French al lies track Charnier's minions to the ship yards, where they start a shooting match that ends with the threat of the cops getting drowned like water rats and Doyle getting crushed under the keel of a freighter. It is a flamboyant sequence, intended...
...WRIST FLIP. The Frisbee is held behind the back, with the arm stiff, and is released while the player is leaping in the air, with much the same motion as a discus throw...
Arcadia Restored. The gentle, stiff cadences of Hicks' sermons are at one with the awkwardly tender forms of his paintings: they promise a fulfilled world where the humors are no longer at war, where mind is no longer in conflict with body-in short, an earthly paradise, that fantasy of a prelapsarian Arcadia restored in the wildernesses of the new world. No wonder Hicks looks so quaint in 1975. For 50 years since his "rediscovery," he has been thought to be the best of all American primitive painters whose works survive from the 19th century-not because...