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...with a spacey artist (Daryl Hannah) the night she is supposed to have killed her ex-lover, is allowed to act as one of her attorneys at the murder trial. Finally, the real murderer forces Kelly and the artist to bang noisily on a sculpture while dozens of guests attend a stately memorial service in an adjacent room. Ivan Reitman is the coarsest and canniest of directors; Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters had no subtlety or style, but all profitably exploited Bill Murray's goofy hipness. Here, however, Reitman misreads the audience's pulse. The villain of Legal Eagles...
...meetings commemorating the Soweto uprising. The activists, comprising hundreds of black groups, swore that they would go through with their plans. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel prizewinner and primate of the South African Anglican Church, asked his churches to hold services on the anniversary and urged his followers to attend. Last week's action marked the second time in less than a year that the Botha government has resorted to emergency measures. But the first time, which lasted seven months and ended March 7, the decree was confined to areas of black unrest around Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town...
...nothing.'' There has been speculation that the U.S. raid forced Gaddafi to share power with the four other members of Libya's ruling Revolutionary Council. Gaddafi may also have less support from his principal ally, the Soviet Union. A delegation from Moscow that had been expected to attend last week's ceremonies failed to show up. Such a conspicuous absence strengthens the suspicion that the spark has gone out of Gaddafi's revolution...
...lasting reputation by trying to explain it. In his coverage of American politics, White had few if any peers. William R. Brown Pittsburgh In the autumn of 1982 there was a seminar of old China hands on ''War Reporting: China in the 1940s.'' Teddy White was unable to attend and in a letter of regret wrote, ''We were all young men, ignorant men, unskilled men. China was a mystery to all of us, as it remains today a mystery to most scholars. We never knew who was doing what to whom and why; we could not penetrate Chinese politics...
...overshadow the original objectives of his travels. The main purpose that the 81-year-old Pope is flying so far to reach a country with some five million Catholics is to preside over World Youth Day in Sydney. Benedict's first trip as Pope three years ago was to attend the same event in Cologne, Germany...