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...foreign-policy terms, though, a nebulous agreement simply to talk again was not much to boast about after a week of intense and much publicized diplomacy that began at the United Nations in New York. Appearing before the General Assembly on Monday, Reagan gave one of the most conciliatory speeches of his presidency, proposing regular negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on many levels and varying issues. But Gromyko had made it clear in his harshly worded speech to the U.N. Thursday that Moscow was looking for U.S. concessions before resuming formal bargaining on arms control or, indeed...
...ordination. By some estimates, this is the largest number of rabbis trained by any sage of the past millennium. The group makes up the majority of the North American Orthodox rabbis now serving in synagogues. Neither the Conservative nor the Reform branches of U.S. Judaism can boast an equivalently pre-eminent scholar...
...boast a more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires...
...they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat." This time around, the dying leader has more to worry about than just the squabbling between his sons Adonijah and Solomon over who will succeed him. There is his reputation to consider: "I don't like to boast-I know I boast a bit when I say I don't have to boast-but I honestly think I've got the best story in the Bible. Where's the competition?" This premise undeniably has promise: David looking back on his tempestuous career not only from...
...over again. "The devil made me do it" is a corker that had pretty well run its course when Flip Wilson retired it about a decade ago. Heller makes David say it no fewer than three times. Who can forget the noted humorist and slugger Reggie Jackson and his boast "I'm the straw that stirs the drink"? Certainly not Heller, who uses this line three times as well. The spirit of Woody Allen is sometimes summoned forth: "That which is crooked cannot be made straight, although with that one I believe there are psychotherapists who might disagree." When...