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...Deputies trooped, shaken but unharmed, down the steps of the colonnaded Cortes. Their joyful sense of relief was tempered by concern for the future of Spanish democracy. Said one senior government official: "This has been a good lesson, but we are still ashamed. We thought we were not a banana republic, and we don't want to be one." U.C.D. Party Leader Agustín Rodriguez Sahagun, one of the leaders who had been confined separately in a side room by the kidnapers, summed up his harrowing experience this way: "At the point of machine guns, I realized that...
...supposed to be destroyed actually are destroyed. Thus, one esoteric idea under consideration is a system that would slow attackers by flooding embassy rooms with an aqueous foam laden with tear gas. Says a State Department official: "We're looking into all kinds of schemes, starting with banana peels in the parking...
...sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis. But how long can he play second banana, on whose sleek skin the other actors do pratfalls? Perhaps his next film will give him the break, and the shining costar, he needs: Muppet Movie II, with Miss Piggy. Otherwise, Grodin may grow arm-weary trying to get comic capital out of unproductive S.L.O.T. machines...
...gelding and only two sounds are pleasing: his own voice and his listener's laughter. As the central character, comic relief, raisonneur and raison d'être of Bernard Slade's play Tribute, Scottie kept the jokes flowing as his world collapsed like a burlesque banana's baggy pants. On Broadway, as incarnated by Jack Lemmon, Scottie was a sympathetic soul. With the footlights acting as a DMZ between character and playgoer, Scottie could be abstracted and romanticized: he was the fatally ill trouper doing one heroic final turn...
...useful hard work, competition and excellence have reappeared here and there: the moral equivalents of Bass Weejuns and button-down shirts. A cynic would say that the culture's manic quest for novelty has simply exhausted some of its adventurously kinky experiments (open marriage, bisexuality, a doctrinaire celibacy, banana smoking and roller disco) and so returned to the Real Thing, temporarily no doubt. It is all transient fashion, the cynic would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker...