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Through this underworld Pacino stalks like a panther. He carries memories of earlier performances (the bantam bombast of Dog Day Afternoon, the nervous belt tugging from American Buffalo, the crook'd arm from his Broadway Richard III), but creates his freshest character in years. There is a poetry to his psychosis that makes Tony a figure of rank awe, and the rhythm of that poetry is Pacino's. Most of the large cast is fine; Michelle Pfeiffer is better. The cool, druggy Wasp woman who does not fit into Tony's world, Pfeiffer's Elvira...
...Henri Nannen, 69, who has been Stern's publisher since the magazine was founded in 1948. Others hinted that blame extends high into Stern's parent corporation, Gruner & Jahr, and even into the holding company, Bertelsmann AG, a publishing conglomerate (1982 sales: $2.4 billion) that includes Bantam Books...
...study, "Living with Nuclear Weapons," will be released simultaneously in hardcover by Harvard University Press and in paperback by Bantam Books on June 1. Its publication culminates a year-long project that began last June when President Bok announced in his commencement address that the University should help to educate the public by providing an objective report on nuclear issues...
...West Virginia hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...
...played defense ever since he began playing hockey 17 years ago in the peewee and bantam leagues of Minnesota. From then on it's been his position, despite the fact that most blueliners are considerably larger. "My size hinders me a bit, but I don't get out-positioned," he says...