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...Reagan in a business suit, the very picture of the political order; John Paul in his papal robes of immaculate white; Sadat, the erect warrior, in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that he shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year...
Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
...laughter at every telling. The house, it turns out, is more than odd-shaped, it is cat-shaped, complete with legs, whiskers and a roar that does not abode well for either occupant. Paul O. Zelinsky draws backgrounds with a studied eccentricity that recalls the works of '20s artists. But his creatures are very much of this time: the mouse treats his saxophone in the manner of Cannonball Adderley...
...round of U.S.-Soviet arms talks devoted specifically to the problems surrounding medium-range missiles. Launched largely at the instigation of NATO's European members, these negotiations will seek to find ways of reducing the numbers of, if not eliminating altogether, the 250 Soviet SS-20s and 350 older SS-4s and SS-5s already trained on Western Europe, and the 572 U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles scheduled to be deployed by 1983 in West Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands...
...Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern is inverted in "Some Straight Numb Commitment." A pair of teenagers married straight out of high school become hired "parents" to a flabby mental case in his 20s, and his insanity tinges their inexperience with crazy shades of age and sexual maturity. Age roles are almost always convoluted and distorted. T.V. is a constant scoundrel...