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Benjamin Stein Slipping and Sliding Away Beginnings and endings are hard to locate with precision. That difficulty is compounded when dealing with something as amorphous as what is laughingly...

The Talkies (August 1975)

states which failed to participate. Senator Jackson and many others, however, favor the use of sanctions against states which fail to adopt state land use programs. Senator Jackson would use...

The Talkies (June 1975)

standing in the middle of the highway leading from the town, trying in vain to warn the passing motorists, who naturally take him to be insane. The producers, however, insisted upon adding a framing...

The Talkies (May 1975)

"The Talkies" Movies about women are becoming like what movies about blacks were a few years ago. As soon as they are made, they are guaranteed an audience and at least a few sympathetic reviews. We are living in...

The Talkies (April 1975)

"The Talkies" It is the summer of 1944 in Nazi-occupied France, hundreds of miles from where the invading allies and the Germans are slugging it out. In a tiny farming village, a seventeen-year-old boy returns to...

The Talkies (March 1975)

"The Talkies" Stavisky & Young Frankenstein We are haunted by what we are and what we might be. We see all around us the evidence of the fluidity and impermanence of life, and it frightens us, and gives us hope....

James Dean (February 1975)

"James Dean" A few years ago, a lot of people were asking, "Is God dead?" It depends on what they meant by God. If they meant the God of millions of teenagers of every age from 1955 to the present moment, then...

The Talkies (February 1975)

"The Talkies" I went to see The Phantom of the Paradise by mistake. I thought I was going to see Luis Bunuel's new movie, The Phantom of Liberty. I think it was because I was confused by having just eaten a Big...

The Talkies (January 1975)

"The Talkies" the general reader will find neither a readily accessible exposition of their doctrines nor any reason to seek to understand them more fully. According to Mr. McInnes, two developments...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (January 1975)

"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" There are few cocoons so warm as a good spy story. You can crawl inside the twists and turns, the code names, the treachery and heroics; and the real world, with its real treachery and heroics, its...

The Talkies (December 1974)

"The Talkies" many Southerners whom Mencken encouraged and helped. The amount of time he devoted to the Rebels—advising them, contributing to their journals, finding other contributors, helping them get books...

All the President's Men (November 1974)

"All the President's Men" AT ONE POINT in the story of how two reporters for the Washington Post covered the Watergate story and broke much new ground in it, the following lines occur: "They had not broken the law . . . that...

The Client Nobody Knew (November 1974)

"The Client Nobody Knew" FOR SOME REASON, I always kept the door to my outer office unlocked. The door was on the third floor of an office building that hadn't been new when I had moved in thirty years ago, and it hadn't...

The Talkies (November 1974)

"The Talkies" The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kraritz (:aliprnia Split J BE LOVEABLE. you have to start out being ved. There is no other route, and trying e other routes leads to being not only unveahle, but...

The Talkies (October 1974)

"The Talkies" ONCE IN A GREAT while, a movie flashes across the horizon with stupendous brilliance, a director or a star's career is launched, a public is created, and the movie enters the annals of popular...

The Talkies (May 1974)

quote him verbatim. Warhol merely signs a soup can and le voila, un chef-d'oeuvre. The world, concludes Kenner, is becoming one vast musde sans murs Where the proper person can transform almost...

The Talkies (April 1974)

"The Talkies" cure of government censorship would be considerably worse than the disease, and is clearly not even to be considered. One might even argue effectively that if the American public enjoys this...

The Nation's Pulse (March 1974)

"The Nation's Pulse" they greatly enlarged its terms and provided missing components of theory. The capability and subsequently the doctrine of flexible response grew out of the revival of conventional forces...

The Talkies (March 1974)

"The Talkies" are Jeffrey Hart's "Secession of the Intellectuals," James Burnham's "Notes on Authority, Morality, Power," and Irving Kristol's "A Foolish American Ism--Utopianism": three of the most...

The Talkies (February 1974)

and by a genuine passion for gemiltlichkeit, rather hoped the Kaiser would win his war. Well, the Kaiser, unlike Hitler, was at least a gentleman, so we can excuse the Mencken wish even though...

Nixon His Friends and His Enemies (January 1974)

"Nixon His Friends and His Enemies" be open warfare between Ethiopia and Soviet-supported Somali for control of Djibouti. Within the Persian Gulf the Soviets are given access to the Iraqi port of Basra. Some analysts believe...

Talkies (January 1974)

"Talkies" and remolding men, thereby liberating them from the shackles of ignorance and privilege. In the centralized economic administration of the Soviet Union, and in the totalitarian efforts to...

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