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...Bal has no dialogue -only song, dance and wallflower vignettes. A forlorn aristocrat fishes his monocle out of a champagne glass, fixes it in his eye, and one bubbly tear slides down his face. A 1930s hard-boiled hero, based on the young Jean Gabin, reappears 20 years later as the aging Gabin's Inspector Maigret. There is plenty of verve here but little charm; the relentless closeups favored by Director Ettore Scola (A Special Day, La Nuit de Varennes) turn every character into a comic-pathetic gargoyle. It is left to the nostalgic sound track to evoke...
Inside the stadium, where the usual phalanx of police with dogs and automatic weapons ringed the field before the game, the Soviet Union's hard-working Andrei Bal shocked the crowd of 70,000 when his shot was mishandled by Brazil's Goalie Waldir Peres Arruda. Then came a dazzling display of attacking, creative soccer. A player named Dr. Socrates B. Oliveira, 28, Brazil's physician-turned-forward and the squad's field general, came to life against the Soviets, who had trained near Moscow and were unprepared for the 86° heat of Seville. Socrates...
...Heidegger. So when he heard that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy grew last month when Playwright Christopher Hampton presented a stage version now playing at London's Mermaid theater, that Steiner thought...
...poor and the deprived and the unemployed in this country," a reference to the mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 in which the deadly potion was a soft drink laced with cyanide. After Kirkland made the characterization at the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Vice President George Bush, a visitor at the session, accused him of "groping for a headline...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger also favors default. In addition, the AFL-CIO executive council last week called for a declaration of default during a meeting in Bal Harbour...