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...terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies and shoot-outs...
While Gish's lackluster performance is disappointing, at least it provides a backdrop for those of her parents. Williams and Voight pick up where Gish left off and go one step further. Along with Star, they provide the film with what interest it has. In fact, one ends up wishing the movie would spend less time with Rose and more on her much more fascinating and complex parents, who are each grappling with somewhat more real problems...
...movie doesn't seem to know how to treat what one expects to be its central focus--the nuclear testing that its created as backdrop. Vague references are made to it throughout the movie, and the movie's climax is a huge explosion. One wishes, like Rose's step-father, that one could see more of the glamorized military intelligentsia. This is probably the same desire that many Las Vegans had in the 1950s. However, they had to live their lives, as boring as they might have been. You don't have to see this movie...
Against that backdrop of unexpected economic malaise, TIME last week assembled its U.S., European and Pacific Boards of Economists for a two-day session in New York City. The joint meeting, the first of its kind, brought together 19 distinguished economists from 13 countries plus Hong Kong for an unusually comprehensive examination of the non-Communist world's prospects. A special guest at the meeting was former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who discussed how political forces are affecting the economic outlook...
...plays a role in this film similar to that played by Mount Rushmore in Hitchcock's North by Northwest or the Royal Albert Hall in The Man Who Knew Too Much. If not up to that highest caliber of architectural film settings, the glass dome does provide a nice backdrop for the flying bullets, which shatter the ubiquitous glass windows, the bodies, which fall down escalators and the adventurous heros, who scall the walls of the building with mountain-climbing gear galore...