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...life based on sheer willp ower. Injured in a car accident just over a year ago that left him unable to speak, eat or move unassisted, a condition known as Locked-In Syndrome, Bauby refused let the accident defeat him. Working with therapists, he devised a system of communi cation with his left eyelid based on the frequency of letters used in French words. After a short time, Bauby could blink his way through any conversation. He set up the Locked-In Syndrome Association, an organization that tries to help those who suff er from the condition and their families...
...There seemed to be a de-amplifi- cation of politics this year," Gideonse says. "There was no BGLSA response to the AALARM [Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality] posters. The BGLSA response to Colin Powell took a long time and wasn't very forceful...
Charles builds a model of the house, furnishes it and plays moodily with a Laura doll, a husband doll, a daughter. In the state government office where he works (the state happens to be Utah, though not much is made of the fact, and the film's lo cation could just as easily have been Penn sylvania), he shoves papers into his Out box without reading them and swigs vod ka from a pint in his desk drawer. Laura does not call...
Director Yates, whose best previous work has been in action films like Bullitt, here demonstrates a very nice light touch, as well as a gift for getting full documentary value out of his lo cation. There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings. This is the kind of small, star less film that big studios sometimes do not know what to do with. Audiences should have no such difficulty. They...
...territories occupied in the Six Day War until the Arab states granted Israel diplomatic recognition. Then as now, the Secretary of State felt that Israel should be prepared to return the occupied territories for less extensive concessions. His handling of American policy during the October War gave clear in cation of how he analyzed the situation Kissinger saw another massive Israeli victory as potentially detrimental to both achieving a settlement in the area, and more importantly, to the cause of detente. Should the Israelis be about to repeat the rout of 1967, he believed, the Soviet Union would intervene, even...