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...pointillist effects note by Johnny-one-note. Nearly every number begins with a staccato verse and chorus; it soars toward traditional musical passion only at midpoint, then withdraws into tart anticlimax. It takes a second or third hearing for ballads like Finishing the Hat, Beautiful and Sunday to betray subterranean seisms of feeling: ironic, wistful, profound, possessed. A heart beats under that starched shirt...
...recounting how Josie Hogan (Kate Nelligan) and James Tyrone Jr. (Ian Bannen) live out their 18-hour love affair (all the way from reluctant acknowledgment that it exists to equally reluctant renunciations), O'Neill created one of his most moving statements about how reality and dreams betray each other...
Philosophically, it had been a long march indeed for Ronald Reagan. Just five years ago, when full diplomatic relations were established with China and cut with Taiwan, Candidate Reagan sputtered angrily. He said he had just watched Washington "cold-bloodedly betray a friend for political expediency. The memory will not go away." Maybe not, but it has obviously faded some. Reagan's frothy six days in the country that he used to call "Red China," is his presidency's most important foreign trip by far. Speaking in the Great Hall of the People in Peking, he alluded...
...there is more. Greenfeld's antihero, Larry Lazar, is not a conventionally Philistine tycoon, trampling on the souls of artists. He is an artist, an acclaimed creator of humanistic films who just happens to be, personally, a creep. He would rather betray a friend than lose a deal. When Lazar feels a charitable impulse and gives money to the less fortunate, he connives to get the studio to pay him back. And he is not merely greedy. He is, as a colleague remarks, "an aesthetic hustler" who looks upon every intimate-even his unlamented mother-as movie "material...
Iraq's resort to chemical warfare may betray a growing desperation on the part of Saddam Hussein over Iran's human-wave assaults. Many military observers in the region are expecting an Iranian offensive within the next few weeks that could prove to be the decisive battle of the war. Together the two sides have an estimated 400,000 troops in the battle zone, and the number is increasing. Iran has not yet committed its regular troops to battle, and Iraq has not moved in all its reserves...