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...film's humorous elements are its greatest attraction. Mastroianni plays a man with a vivid, even clownish imagination, a part at which he is particularly adept. "How could you marry a man like that. He should have been a clown," Romano's mother-in-law says early in the film...
...Hill Street Blues without the violence. The premiere segment made some jarring missteps (a running gag about a policewoman trying to seduce a gay cop) and lunged too hard for the emotional knockout (Ritter bursting into tears over the death of his landlady). But the engaging Ritter is adept at both ends of the comedy-drama spectrum, and Hooperman has possibilities...
...infection, not only in the northeastern U.S., where it was first diagnosed twelve years ago, but across the country and around the world. Researchers reported that the disease has now been found in at least 32 states and six continents, in part because doctors have become more adept at diagnosing it. Since 1980 there have been nearly 6,000 officially recorded cases in the U.S., but experts say the actual number is far higher. "If it weren't for AIDS," says Microbiologist Russell Johnson of the University of Minnesota, "it would be the No. 1 new disease facing us today...
...argues that declining to receive Waldheim would have been tantamount to judging him guilty.* Dismayed that John Paul made no mention of the Holocaust during Waldheim's visit, Jewish leaders talked of boycotting a ceremonial meeting in Miami this week during the Pope's U.S. visit. But with the adept, if belated, papal diplomacy, that meeting should now go smoothly...
...slouch. He has been accused of drug running, money laundering, election fraud and helping to steer restricted American technology to the Cubans and Soviets, not to mention repressing his own people. Yet Noriega, the Commander of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto dictator since 1983, has been adept at exploiting his country's strategic position. Although he openly cuddles up to Havana, he has long enjoyed a cozy relationship with the CIA, and his country plays host to the headquarters of the 10,000 troops of the U.S. Southern Command...