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...counterfeit obeisance to a society motivated by its own corruption. Bresson, too, regards humanity with the ferocious passivity of a stone lion on some abandoned antique isle. At 76 he has made his most serene and terrifying film to date, one that strikes at its target like a bolt of judgment flung from an Olympus on Mars...
...more a synthesizer than an innovator, but it's never the steps that are most important. It's the style. That's what Michael has." Gene Kelly talks about Jackson's "native histrionic intelligence and his great wit. He knows when to stop and then flash out like a bolt of lightning. There are a lot of dancers who can go 90 miles an hour, but Michael is too clever for just that." From Fred Astaire comes perhaps the ultimate tribute: "My Lord, he is a wonderful mover. He makes these moves up himself and it is just great...
Shamir's Likud coalition has come under fire from within its own ranks as a result of its economic policies. Tami, a three-member coalition partner, has threatened to bolt the government if bud get cuts drastically affect the poor. Another Likud member successfully introduced a motion in the Knesset demanding a de bate on whether new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be fro zen because they are too costly...
...Orgad's proposal immediately brought protests from right-wingers, who regard the settlement program as insurance that the West Bank will remain in Israeli hands. Indeed, the Techiya Party, whose support is necessary if Shamir's coalition is to retain its slim four-seat majority, threatened to bolt if the settlement budget...
...Halfway between a university and an engineering firm" is how Senior Vice President Raymond S. Nickerson describes Cambridge think tank Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), co-ordinates of the Project Intelligence program between Harvard and the Venezuelan government (see above story...