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...open in New York City on Feb. 1, is already a sensation and a scandal in Europe. It has been called a work of "constant beauty"; a piece of "talented debauchery that often makes you want to vomit" as well as an "authentic moral and psychological Apocalypse." It will affirm the resurgence of one of the great talents of the age, one who had seemed, through the 1960s, to be erratically and sometimes disastrously in decline: Marlon Brando. Brando is already being touted as an Academy Award contender for his role in last year's The Godfather...
Politicians affirm that a woman's place is in the voting booth...
...used it before. For the sake of American business interests and the political stability needed to ensure their profits, we have denied support to legitimately elected governments and popular revolutions, causing them to turn elsewhere for help. Then we shake an accusing finger in their faces as we staunchly affirm our resistance to Communist incursions...
Even if the White House's assessment of the Salvadoran army's dire straits is correct, sending more advisors and funds will be at best ineffective, at worst catastrophic. Presumably, the Administration has no illusions about routing the leftists; the overwhelming majority of military experts affirm this is an impossible dream. So Washington no doubt hopes only to keep the rightist government in place as long as possible. The advisors and funds are nothing more than temporary measures that demonstrate an acute lack of long term vision...
...Israeli people and soldiers, "by affirming their humanity, also affirm the Palestinians'. They have risen in protest against the politics of terror that Israel itself has long had to endure. By their shame, they shame the killers of their own children. By their revulsion, they expose the hypocrisy of many of their critics." (Times Sept. 29). Mr. Bisharat, though his selective conscience, factual omissions, and distortions, is simply one more of those duplicitous assailants. William Marks...