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...almost a week, Radio Free Grenada had kept listeners across the Caribbean on edge with breathless accounts of coups and countercoups among the Marxist rulers of the tiny (133 sq. mi., pop. 110,000) island. Then last Wednesday, what had begun as political melodrama turned into a murderous power play...
...clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion, at once ladylike and sensual. Now PAN ON OVER TO the bed and FIND Hilary and a young man locked in naked and breathless embrace. As Hilary is swept... from passion to frenzy that approaches violence, biting and clawing at the young man in bed with her, GO TO [a jet plane] firing up with a great, pulsing roar...
...plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator. He was catapulted to the top of the new profession of industrial design along with Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Dorwin Teague, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss...
...much of last week, the mercurial but besieged mayor of 16 years once again had the spotlight entirely to himself. As rumors swirled through a breathless Boston that Kevin White, 53, would soon announce whether he would run for a fifth consecutive term, White holed up in a Manhattan hotel. On Thursday evening he finally put the speculation to rest. With his old characteristic flair, the telegenic mayor announced in a taped, five-minute television broadcast that he was stepping down. "There comes a time in the life of every man and any city when change is appropriate," White said...
...only imagine with what trepidation McBride and Carson, whose major previous credit is the undercult classic David Holtzman's Diary, approached the problem of remaking Breathless, updating it and resetting it in Los Angeles, the center of everything Godard was subverting. Indeed the movie never entirely shakes off its self-consciousness. But the stale, cynical air that attends most remakes is absent here. Carson knows how to write out of the side of his mouth, and McBride knows how to stage both action and eroticism; their work has a drive and energy that derive from conviction and, perhaps, good...