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...unusual display was only one highlight of a lightning diplomatic foray by Nakasone that was intended to burnish Japan's political image, not only in Korea but also in Washington. During his 24-hour visit to Seoul, the outgoing Japanese politician who became Prime Minister seven weeks ago was laying some shrewd groundwork for his meeting with President Ronald Reagan this week. At a time of fraying U.S.-Japanese relations on such issues as regional defense spending and international trade, Nakasone was hoping to demonstrate that Japan intended to be a strong and stabilizing U.S. ally in Asia. Said...
...bride with long, luxuriant hair sells her locks to buy a watch fob for her husband. He, meanwhile, has pawned his timepiece to purchase a set of combs. Lisbeth Zwerger's biting line and soft, evocative palette illuminate the characters with an aura of a gaslit nobility, and burnish an antique until it shines. With two previous books, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi and last year's Jumanji, Chris Van Allsburg has become the reigning master of black-and-white illustration. In his third work, Ben's Dream (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95), the pictorial style far outdistances...
...even the best programs break the mold; they only burnish it. The shows that hunker down on the middle ground content themselves with switching standard characters and stories around, rearranging furniture in an old house that actually needs razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family...
...People are now more willing to listen." Horton is director of the Houston chapter of the Viet Nam Veterans Leadership Program (V.V.L.P.), which was founded with a modest Government grant last year to foster self-helping voluntarism among the vets. The main goals: to get one another jobs and burnish their collective reputation. "There's a degree of enlightenment now on the part of employers," says Stewart Roth, supervisor of veterans' job programs for California. 'They're coming around." Only a small fraction of the war's veterans, after all, came home with serious emotional...
...Middle East client or tacitly approved of the military operation. It was a no-win diplomatic situation that raised serious questions about U.S. policy and leadership at the very moment when President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig were on a European tour that was intended to burnish the Administration's image abroad. Even the cease-fire that took effect at week's end, with the help of considerable U.S. prodding, did little to dispel doubts about U.S. effectiveness in an important and volatile area...