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Ephron began to see that the kind of "support" the group was giving was along the lines of "I think-you're crazy to-stand another minute-of-that," and that it seemed to be pushing several of brink of divorce. So she found herself in the horrifying position of agreeing with, of all people. Midge Decter, arch anti-feminist, who sees CR groups as potential homewreckers; but Ephron's words carry much more weight, because you know how it hurts her to have to say them...
Stockard Channing shines through the debris like prospector's gold; she fits the period and the part because her ingenue role is so undemanding that she fleshes it out with her talents. Supposedly on the brink of 21, she plays 20 by seesawing around it, looking and talking 30, acting 14. She is so sharply out of synch with herself, speaking with her mother's haughty assurance yet still compulsively playing Daddy's girl, that she is instantly, perceptively comical in a way that the men's flabby clowning is not. Her blue-blooded New England accent, sharp and petted...
...local governments. Last week neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania were suffering through difficulties that, though less acute than New York's, reflected common themes-an inability to compromise, a breakdown in the eleventh-hour bargaining that used to work when governments, unions and taxpayers came to the brink. On a more fundamental level, the problems suggested that states and cities are more and more coming up against very hard choices: What public services must be dispensed with or cut back if there is simply not the money to pay for them...
...False News." The overwhelming response was one of relief that Portugal once again had stepped back from the brink of dictatorship. Some Council members, it is believed, argued for the immediate establishment of a Communist state but were rejected by the majority. Said Socialist Mario Soares, leader of Portugal's largest political party: "There is more hope for parliamentary democracy today than there was yesterday." The communiqué, he added, "is very explicit because it rejects a dictatorship of the proletariat and the way of a people's democracy and reaffirms the original movement toward a socialism compatible...
...always permit the parties to interrelate with each other in a sensible way." Even after the outlines of the solution were clear, the politicians, to Rohatyn's consternation, insisted on wrangling down to the wire. "Politics requires a crisis to go all the way to the brink," he observed. "But you don't know where the brink is sometimes...