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...bred commercial artist who is married to Neal. To research the role, Spacek read a 1,400-page manuscript written by Carolyn and concluded that she was a well-educated, glamorous, "classy lady." Portraying her, reflects the new, womanly Spacek, is a challenge. "Before, I've always stretched backward in time," she says. "This time I'll be stretching forward...
...country he inherited 37 years ago was not only backward and riven by tribal conflict but notoriously unstable: there had not been a single peaceful succession since Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied...
...wake of the foreign ministers' meeting at Britain's Leeds Castle in July. Sadat became enraged by Begin's refusal to make a gesture of conciliation on the Sinai or any further significant concessions for peace. Sadat heatedly declared that the Israeli position was "negative and backward" and that Begin himself was the obstacle to peace...
...AFTERNOON: She had run two miles her first day of jogging, then three miles the second. Now she was going for six. All right, she felt a bit sore. But she was young, only 35, and in good shape ... Next day she had to go down the subway steps backward on her way to the doctor...
...complicated tasks that require feedback and self-correction. He (she?) will be semismart, with microprocessors and slow-scan television to guide his (her?) actions and, Skora hopes, the ability to take instructions direct from the inventors' brain waves. Sneb, the new creation will be called, for Ben spelled backward (with...