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...Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through the movie like a puzzled zombie. Did she do Mike's Murder as a favor to Bridges, who in Urban Cowboy gave Winger her first meaty role? It looks more like penance...
...another thing. The Democratic powers at Toad's declared one morning: "No more kinfolks. If the candidates themselves don't come, they can forget it." Ethel Kennedy and her son Joe were good crowd builders back in 1980 when they were working for Teddy. Greenfielders have got blasé. They didn't turn out for Glenn's daughter, Cranston's son or Hart's wife...
...signs of change are everywhere. Before the war, the townspeople eagerly awaited the arrival of the supply boat that came from Britain every three months. Last week the harbor was filled with at least 17 warships and merchant vessels, and the locals have grown so blasé that only word of a Royal Navy submarine stirs much interest. The busiest part of town is the jetty, where supplies are taken off the ships and soldiers come and go all day. Trucks hauling machinery and building supplies snort up the hills toward Stanley Airport, which is crowded with Phantom and Harrier...
Having seen 41 governments come and go in the past 37 years, Italians are pretty blasé about their politics. Still, those who took time off from their vacations last week to glance at a newspaper were not quite prepared for the official photograph of their new government. Man for man and portfolio for portfolio, it consisted of the same 28 ministers who had posed for the ritual picture in June 1981. True, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini appeared to have put on a few pounds, and Treasury Minister Benjamino Andreatta had shifted from the far left to the far right...
Monaco's royal family has remained blasé. After all, "she has known him for about ten years," said a spokesman for the Rainiers somewhat ambiguously, "just as she knows the racing drivers and other tennis players in Monte Carlo...