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...nation's airlines adjust to a brave new business world aloft...
...also features a star turn by Lauren Bacall, the object of the psycho's attentions, that is brave, flashy and riveting. It is brave because she plays a woman on the shady side of 50 who hides neither her wrinkles nor the temperamental manipulativeness so common among aging stars; flashy because, besides singing and dancing, she trades in high-gloss show-biz bitchery that sometimes approaches the level of All About Eve; riveting because she shows a touching vulnerability about her professional and personal insecurities (she is torching for her ex-husband, played by James Garner). Bacall...
...which seems to argue for taking the President's advice. Not that anyone will. Not that anyone should. All the prudence involved in not writing letters can't hold a candle to the brave helplessness of putting oneself on the line. "I have concealed nothing from you," Johnson closed a letter to a woman he loved, "nor do I expect ever to repent of having thus opened my heart." -By Roger Rosenblatt
...will be best remembered for its generous use of color photographs. The Guardian offered the kindest epitaph: "Now!-was a brave deed in a cowardly world...
...defenselessness against the onslaught of Japanese cars. The flaming power of Columbia's rockets seemed to lift Americans out of their collective sense of futility and gloom. At last they had a few things to cheer: an extraordinary spacecraft-the most daring flying machine ever built-and two brave and skilled men at its helm. As President Reagan told the astronauts, "Through you, we feel as giants once again...