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...Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), many of whose followers support the Conservatives. He said that he was reminded of a puppet show in which the man pulling the strings was the AWB leader. But it was Colin Eglin, head of the Progressive Federal Party, who said aloud what many in the House of Assembly must have been thinking: "Here we have a Nationalist government that believes in race classification, group areas, apartheid in schools, hospitals, housing and constitutional provisions, being attacked for being too liberal. What a sad day for South Africa...
This premise, quite a literary one, seems at first unsuited for treatment on the big screen. The sparse dialogue shares time with voice-overs by Bancroft and Hopkins reading aloud the amusing epistolary interchanges between their characters. Perhaps correctly sensing the thinness of the letters gimmick, screenwriter Hugh Whitmore tries to flesh out the story by including little vignettes of Hanff and Dole's lives...
...eyes have it. Reading questions aloud is boring, even on C-SPAN. None of the courtroom wizards on L.A. Law use crib sheets. Explains Dorothy Sarnoff, a corporate-image adviser: "When you read, we don't see the eyes, so we don't know what you're feeling...
...worship, the new NAB avoids male terms for generalized human references (for example, "one" replacing "man"). The editors decided, however, not to alter male references to God and Jesus and to retain "kingdom of God" because the phrase "reign of God" seems to refer to precipitation when read aloud...
Guile, however, had no role in the ninth round, when Leonard finished winning the crowd and started finishing the fight. In terrible peril on the ropes, he twice flurried his way out and left Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing...