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...were led up the farmyard path--take their rightful place as legitimate uneasinesses that Robert Mulligan's skillful direction made you ignore. Eschewing the period songs, posters, and movies he used in Summer of '42, he has recreated intact a childhood world that is separate from the wider-ranging life of surrounding adults. There is no hint of city life: the biggest crowds (barring a short scene at a country fair) are the score or so of people who attend the several funerals that come up before the film is done. Life is running free on the farm, drinking lemonade...
...billion business, up from $1.3 billion just seven years ago, thanks to a happy combination of factors. Coinciding with rising costs and declining quality of retail clothing, there came a new widespread interest in creative handicrafts. At the same time, improved sewing machines plus a wider variety of patterns and fabrics added to the appeal of sewing-it-yourself...
...created a common currency zone, Pompidou implied, he might then be willing to consider the prospect of granting larger powers to the European Parliament and taking steps toward increased political cohesion within the ten. Thus even if the summit does take place on schedule, its agenda will exclude the wider economic and political issues that Brandt and the other leaders seek to discuss...
...innocence and sensuality, a combination that her lover, French Actor-Director Christian Marquand, calls her essential quality. "She's slightly schizophrenic," says Marquand, "and that gives her a great gift of poetry and a natural perception of things." Some observers wonder, however, if she can act in a wider variety of parts. De Sica seems not to be one of the doubters; he sees her liabilities more as a factor of age than temperament. "Una bambino." he says of the Dominique he directed, "with all the qualities and all the defects of the very young...
...social responsibility of business. Organized corporate critics in growing numbers are pressing proxy votes and raising questions from the floor on issues like minority hiring, pollution, defense production and company operations in South Africa. While the challengers have so far lost all their skirmishes, they may be winning a wider war to influence company policy...