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Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: What's New (Asylum). Nine standards, done straight, by a pop queen collaborating with an old orchestra master. It must have seemed crazy, but it's a hit and a seemingly effortless tour de force...
...film vaults grant. On its face his is a comic turn, an impersonation of a homosexual impersonating a nanny to a grownup child. But his mincing rage for order has deeper roots; this small and isolated backstage world has offered him, until Sir started disrupting it, an asylum from the larger world he could never manage. Subtle observation and marvelously controlled invention mark Courtenay's work...
...Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken for a Cuban and carted off to Point Salines, where he cheerfully told tall tales to the interrogators. "There's like some supernatural thing happening here," Thompson says. "Can you imagine being an aging Negro in the insane asylum, and the U.S. military comes invading your country. They didn't even see guns here until a few years...
...soften the blow by dismissing any defections in advance as the result of U.S. psychological coercion. A government communique charges that American interrogators are "using every possible means to undermine the morale" of the prisoners, telling them that Cuba does not want them back and offering them political asylum...
...missions. But the strongest indication that an Iran-backed radical Shi'ite group was involved derived from the fact that the French contingent was struck at the same time as the Marines. In recent months France has become one of Khomeini's most hated countries, partly because it granted asylum to former Iranian President Bani Sadr and other Iranian dissidents, and partly because it sold five sophisticated Super Etendard jets to Iraq. U.S. intelligence analysts note that the Iranians have pressed the Hizbolla, a radical Shi'ite group in Lebanon, to step up terrorist action against French and American targets...