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...1940s and 50s as "among the best stories for kids on paper," Spiegelman says Americans have lacked for comics you can re-read the way kids like to do. Hopefully these two series will provide the beginning a greater selection of kid's comics. "Kids, as we know, are ambi-tasterous," Spiegelman says. "They'll like lots of comics. They did in the past and they could again...
...Video Phone will hit stores in late February with a price somewhere south of $1,000. For those who'd like a touch-sensitive tablet that receives e-mail, news and weather, Global Converging Technologies will roll out its Cendis Net Display next summer for about $500. Philips' Ambi system, due out in February for $500, will turn any TV into a second home PC by using a wireless receiver that can pull video and audio signals from a computer as far as 150 ft. away...
...difficulty is the director's determination to turn Love on the Run into a retrospective of the entire Doinel cycle. Not only do old players reappear, including Marie-France Pisier of Love at 20 (1962), but so do clips from the other films. It may be a laudably ambi tious notion to refract the past through the present in such purely cinematic terms, but there is too much material to be digest ed in one movie. Too often Truffaut's flashbacks are hit-or-miss In jokes: while he shows us dozens of pieces...
...land and a Jew wants to buy, why shouldn't he have the right to do so. [Because the status of the occupied territories is still unsettled, the Israeli government has forbidden Jews to buy land on the West Bank.] The other interest is security. We have no ambi tion to be the rulers of the Moslem Arabs, but it is a different thing to have the right of Jews to live in this area, near them, with them and by them. For a while what I see on the West Bank is not a dividing line between...
Charles de Gaulle may be stubborn, outrageous and unrealistic in his ambi tions for France, but his policies usual ly contain a degree of rationality. His opposition to British entry into Europe, however motivated it may be by anti-Anglo-Saxon prejudice, makes a certain amount of sense because British entry would surely bring problems and perhaps dangers to the Common Market. His recent diplomatic support of the Arabs against Israel, however in consistent with past French policy, makes a Machiavellian kind of sense because De Gaulle wants to increase French influence among Arab nations disillusioned with Russia and disgusted...