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...while the Arabs were ecstatic over Carter. An Egyptian official called him "more Arab than the Ar abs," while Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat last month praised the President's position on the Palestinians as "a positive step...
...qualities Shaw most prized, he also possessed - moral passion and individual integrity. It is not surprising that he portrays hell in this play as a kind of sumptuous nightclub of gourmandizing delights and heaven as a spartan gymnasium of progressive ar dor. Shaw speaks the language of militant betterment, and it is at the heart of Man and Superman...
While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
...gets a charge from the high-voltage presence of Giancarlo Giannini, Director Lina Wertmuller's favorite actor (Seven Beauties; Swept Away). Here, with rambunctious energy, Giannini assumes roles in eight separate vignettes, playing everything from a lawyer hung up on dowagers to a simple, wistful yokel who unknowingly ar ranges an assignation with a transvestite. His partner in most of these episodes is a young Italian actress, Laura Antonelli, who, in a more innocent time, might have been called a lollapalooza. Antonelli has the face of a ravished angel, the shape of legend...
...primary days. He is, in fact, continuing to exude-and to convey-such an aura of confidence that editors of the Scribner-Bantam English Dictionary have thrown caution to the winds. For a new edition to appear next January, they drafted an entry reading: "Carter, James /kart'ar/ n (1924-) 39th president of the U.S. 1977-." Although the listing can be deleted if Carter should lose the election on Nov. 2, Carter has no intention of putting the editors to that trouble...