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...alien being here is Chloe (Meg Tilly), Alex's ex-girlfriend, a decade younger and more limber, monitoring the action with eyes that have seen it all and ain't telling. You have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William...
...also boasts a great Greatest Hits sound track, which finds just the right comic or dramatic settings for such fine '60s songs as You Can't Always Get What You Want, Good Lovin', Ain 't Too Proud to Beg and A Natural Woman. Indeed, the entire film is a kind of sock-hop benefit for Approaching Middle Age. This maturing generation never played Taps with such glamour or good humor. Play the music and let the big chill-the knowledge that "we're all alone out there, and we're going out there tomorrow...
...Ethics are low in this town, says John Merriam, publisher of a newsletter about the Washington media. "There just ain't no political standards." Debate positions normally are taken from the previous public stands of the candidates. Says Ben Wattenberg, a political analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute: "Maybe the person who turned over the papers saved a Reagan research team an awful lot of trouble...
...cares, but Martinez goes on and on saying he is a U.S. citizen with Argentine bloodlines. Martinez was growling that his recruiting officer sold him out. "I hate the Marines," he said. "I want my beard back! I want hair! My time is up in February 1985, and I ain't looking back, man. I wanted combat engineering. I wanted to be somebody when I got out. They give me infantry. So what are my skills? I could be a security guard, or I could be a janitor. You see, I spend a lot of time cleaning things...
...better still is The Blue Parrot on Mt. Auburn St. near the post office. It ain't Casablanca, but the American/continental selections are superb, very reasonably priced, and served up in pleasant surroundings...