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...problems that do disturb ordinary French voters. Unemployment has reached a near record 6.3%; the inflation rate is 13.5%. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is expected to defeat his most serious opponent, only because his opposition on the left is so divided. Coluche is filling a void. More than 200 Coluche-for-President committees have sprung up across France, and he is confident that he will get the 500 signatures of elected local officials he needs to be placed on the ballot: there are, after all, more than 40,000 such officials to approach...
...Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...demands, unassailable in her emotion, inconsolable in her situation. "There's no way I can repay you; there's no use trying. Let's just try to forget everything and start over again," offers the father, desperately. And the daughter assents with her silence, turning her back on a void that will never be filled, looking ahead. There is no neat ending here; no banality heaped upon ugliness, thankfully...
Oberg fills his athletic void in the winter coaching high school wrestling at the Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols School in Cambridge, an obligation of over 20 hours a week...
...field events look a little brighter. Freshman Beth Cooley could fill a void in the shot put if her dislocated shoulder recovers in time. The duo of Lenny Yajima and Karen Ueda should be potent in the long jump, and junior Liane Rozzell returns to her aerial escapades in the high jump...