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...Armand Hammer seems to go on forever. Last week he formally teamed up with a people who have gone on forever, the Chinese. The 85-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum signed an agreement with the People's Republic for the largest Sino-U.S. deal yet: a $580 million venture to mine coal from a huge pit at Antaibao, 310 miles west of Peking...
...morning? "The only thing that breaks at that time of the morning," the detective says, "are the hearts of men like us." Fitting every scrap of evidence into his now increasingly suspicious mind, Claude concludes the socks of his wife's lover belong to Max Stein (Armand Assante), his protege and rising violin player. Still in New York, Claude is ready for more than sulking...
...object of all pre-pubescent female desire in Little Darlings and Eurostud in Private Benjamin, Armand Assante competently plays the lover apparent and star violinist. Where violinist Stein should be unconscious, Armand Assante keeps his eyes closed. Throughout the entire film, he plays the self-centered seducer, and yet he never takes himself so seriously as to make his character one-dimensional and boring...
...vigné was widowed at 25, when her libertine husband died in a duel over a courtesan. A crush of suitors quickly moved in: Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's ill-fated superintendent of finance; Marshal de Turenne, the outstanding military hero of the era; Prince Armand de Bourbon, a member of the royal family. The widow refused them all. Her deepest affections were held in reserve for her daughter. The occasion for most of the Sévigné letters was the daughter's marriage and removal to Provence. Separated from the child she idolized...
Prospects for the agreement first glimmered at a Houston barbecue four years ago. Deng Xiaoping, Communist Party Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China, who was making a brief U.S. tour, was introduced to Armand Hammer, 85, chairman of Occidental Petroleum. Brushing aside the interpreter, Deng said, "No introduction is necessary. We know Dr. Hammer as the American who helped Lenin. Why don't you come .to China and help us as well?" Hammer, whose close trade ties with the Soviet Union stretch back for more than half a century, said that he would be happy...