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...just after; few actually reveal what's going on inside the character's head. Nelligan consistently underplays her anger and terror, adeptly portraying a woman who bottles everything up. But when she cracks, in a brutal verbal battle with her husband (David Dukes) in a restaurant. Jaffe seems to avert the camera, weakening the scene's impact...
...avert a confrontation--and the violence and deaths that might have resulted--McCall, against the advice of all aides--planned a massive outdoor rock festival in a state park 20 miles outside the city. More than 30,000 youths attended the concert, titled "Vortex I", for which the state provided bands, and eating and medical facilities. State police were ordered to be especially lenient to avoid confrontation. The festival took place without incident, as did the convention in Portland. What became known as "The governor's pot party" failed to harm McCall's bid for re-election...
...idiocy of sending guns to a country in total disarray has yet to strike Reagan. The President wants to avert a communist takeover--not necessarily a misconceived goal. But the best way to do that would be to pressure the current regime to negotiate with the leftists, not murder them. An oppressive government assures a prolonged, bloody civil...
...reality about Latin America: The economic chaos Reagan will find during his trop sums up the recent history of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as well. But in those countries, the resulting economic, social and political inequities--not a bunch of revolutionary communists--led to upheaval. Reagan hopes to avert a similar mess in the nations he will visit this week. Such a worthy goal might be fostered by paying a little more attention to the problems already on the board...
...Douglas Adams. Once again the protagonist is a reluctant wanderer named Arthur Dent; once again his intergalactic guide is an extraterrestrial named Ford Prefect. Vooming around the void accompanied by a two-headed, three-armed creature who once controlled the universe and a sexy space cadet, Dent manages to avert Armageddon and save the world for life as we never knew it. Adams delights in cosmic pratfalls, and if he sometimes loses track of his narrative, he more than makes up for it by confirming what many have suspected all along: "He learned to communicate with birds and discovered that...