Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arok's lips move when he speaks, or rather, when Skora speaks through him. Slip a preprogrammed tape cassette into a slot in Arok's back and he will perform a medley of his domestic hits: bend over, rotate his head 180°, shake your hand, tell bad jokes: "You can be replaced by a robot because robots never make mistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
When U.S. Ambassador Ralph Earle met the Soviets' Vladimir Semyonov at the SALT meeting in Geneva one sunny morning last week, they did not shake hands at the door. It was not because there was any bad feeling between them but because Semyonov, a deputy foreign minister of the Soviet Union, subscribes to an old Russian superstition that it is bad luck to shake hands on a threshold. That is one of the many small oddities of negotiating with the Russians. Although the world's attention is periodically focused on highly publicized encounters between Secretary of State, Cyrus...
There may be a bunch of Politicians outside the fence, mad and complaining. Inside at high summer it isn't a bad life. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter like to watch from the Truman Balcony as the swifts dive and soar in the evening light. They tilt back and forth in their Brumby rockers and quaff homemade-in-the-White-House lemonade by the quart (Maître d' John Ficklin's brew of fresh-squeezed lemons, a touch of sugar and a sprig of mint, served in tall glasses...
...buffer zone. The Begin government interpreted this, or chose to interpret it, as a green light to expand the Sinai settlements before a peace agreement had been concluded. When the Israelis began leveling land for enlarging the settlements last January, Sadat became furious at what he considered bad faith on Begin's part. The Israeli Premier, in turn, was angry at what he took to be Egyptian duplicity in demanding a reduction of the buffer zone. Some of the confusion could perhaps have been cleared up, by a careful rereading of the transcript of the private talks between Sadat...
...Eyes of Laura Mars is simply another in a long line of hyped-up fiascos. The picture starts nowhere and goes nowhere, the story is plain dumb and the acting is pathetically poor. The director seems to have hastily thrown together some pretty bad bits and pieces and tried to pass it off as a whole motion picture...