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...some producers and editors have begun to run the film backward, a process similar to watching spawn swim downstream to salmon. An idea is "developed" by film executives, a writer is recruited to amplify the notion into a novel, and then the book is converted to celluloid. The trend has become widespread: Simon & Schuster Editor David Obst recently moved his offices to Hollywood, and Bantam Books has established a film-production company in Los Angeles. Its acquisitions editor Charles Bloch regards the cinema-literary process as "a sophisticated methodology of people who have an interest in both books and movies...
...during an interview with TIME last Friday: "I am confident that we shall find a solution, though nobody can say when." And a senior State Department aide summed up the latest impasse by saying, "We are now in a dance where it's two steps forward, one step backward. Before that, it was always one step sideways...
...historical ties between the peoples of Soviet Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, and of Afghanistan. "The Uzbeks and Afghans-we're one people," said Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of the state radio and television in Tashkent. He went on to express a feeling of almost familial responsibility toward his backward cousins to the south: "We have a saying that our dogs live better than the Afghans lived under the old regime there" (referring to the monarchy and Daoud government overthrown...
...political considerations play a part in Giscard's cautious attitude; he will be up for re-election in May 1981. Wary of accusations from his conservative rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, that he has abandoned the Gaullist tenets of independence in foreign policy, the President seemingly bends over backward to avoid leaving opponents any room for maneuvering. Such prudence may be excessive. The continued split between France's Communists and socialists, which was aggravated by Party Boss Georges Marchais's overt support for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, makes Giscard perhaps the most comfortably ensconced political leader...
...grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal detachment the upper body of a man falling slowly backward while his legs and trunk remain standing...