Dear Editor
Dear Editor Shock from Poland The ironies of the Polish workers' strikes and the consequences of the American bankers' fiscal idiocy are clearly elucidated by James Whitmire in his article on "The...
...Asahina may recall that Paul had been drunk and acting foolish during his previous encounter with his wife and daughter...
...Thus it is far more plausible that he is anxious to apologize to them and repair relations...
...but is that any reason lor Asahina to lose his critical cool...
...Dear Editor Shock from Poland The ironies of the Polish workers' strikes and the consequences of the American bankers' fiscal idiocy are clearly elucidated by James Whitmire in his article on "The Polish Debt Syndrome" (NL, November 3...
...After noting that at the end of the movie Paul spots his wife and daughter on the street and rushes toward them, Asahina says: "Since a previous meeting had been unsatisfactory for all concerned, we expect that he will be angry or violent...
...The best refrigeration is of limited value unless immunization efforts are carried out in a manner that assures their reaching the most remote villages and hamlets...
...Bob Velmirovic Asahina Melhinks Roberi Asahina protests too much in his review of Woody Allen's latest film, Stardust Memories {"On Screen," NL, October 20...
...Not if we have been watching the film closely...
...Nations as well as consumers have become credit junkies, scrounging for bigger fixes in an effort to stave off cold turkey...
...Whitmire is to be congratulated for showing the interrelationships between seemingly unrelated phenomena...
...Especially interesting were Whitmire's observations on the source of the excess liquidity that tempted the banks into foolish loans in the first place—petrodollars...
...The improvements in refrigeration described by Land are important, but it will take more than technology to eliminate vacctnable diseases...
...Godard is not Sam Peckinpah, for whom slow motion is a cue that the violence is about to begin...
...And Semyon Semyonovich fantasized about this yet...
...Indeed, it is a scene of great pathos because his wife and daughter turn their backs on his suffering (the wife even says, "It's not our problem," as she impassively watches him on his back...
...Jerome Sastre Serious Business It is easy enough to agree with Leo Sauvage ("On Stage," NL, November 3) that if the Party officials who banned Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide'in Moscow in 1932 "had the slightest sense of humor, they would have cut a few lines here and there and let it open on schedule...
...If he ever makes a movie and gives himself "the best scenes, the funniest lines and the most beautiful girls," 1 will track him down and brandish his peevish remarks about Woody ai him...
...The World Health Organization is well aware of this, but it has little control over government inefficiencies in the countries suffering epidemics...
...Orlando, Fla...
...But Land fails to mention an even more daunting obstacle —poor management...
...We sorely need more journalism like his...
...Far from being a deliberately irritating "alienation effect," Paul is dazed and muttering, just as you might expect...
...Once again, he has not been watching carefully...
...New York City Burton Hunt I agree with Robert Asahina that the new Godard film, Every Man for Himself, is something special...
...Often, crucial technology and manpower are misdirected by ignorant local officials...
...New York City Ann Sumner Epidemics It is indeed true, as Thomas Land reports, that a lack of adequate refrigeration has stymied efforts to wipe out communicable disease in the underdeveloped world ("Freezing Out Disease," NL, October 20...
...Baltimore, Md...
...But it disturbs me to see him arrive at his correct assessment based on what seems an inattentive viewing of the film ("On Screen," NL, November 3...
...OK, so maybe Stardust Memories is not a consummate work of art, and Woody Allen is just a nightclub comic with pretensions to depth...
...Usually he is sober and judicious in his appraisals, but whenever Woody comes out with another film Asahina starts to foam at the mouth...
...Chicago Joseph Grumbart...
...Further, in the same scene, Asahina thinks that Paul has stepped out of character and is commenting on himself after being hit by a car...
...Otherwise, doctors can inoculate around the clock and still make little headway against the geometric spread of the disease...
...Yet another bit of gloom we have brought on ourselves through our dependence on nonrenewable sources of energy...
...But I think he underestimates the seriousness with which wanting to leave the Workers' Paradise is taken by Soviet leaders even today, let alone in Stalin's day...
Vol. 63 • November 1980 • No. 21
