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This gaping hole in the liberal view of the world becomes very salient when one considers Central America. While Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, New York Representative Stephen Solarz and others chide the Reagan Administration for its callous support of corrupt and repressive retimes in Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador and other places, these people have nothing to say about Israel's role in selling arms to these same repressive regimes. Happily, Errol Louis breaks the ice by making it clear to all who oppose the apartheid regime in South Africa that they must also begin to oppose the foreign and military...
...used to chide Anderson about how he could have delivered the Gettysburg Address, if Lincoln's text had been placed in front...
Despite all the troubles, a few signs are beginning to indicate that the economy may be starting to pick up. At the Bolsa, the Mexican stock exchange, the mood is improving. Analysts there lightly chide each other for being perhaps a little too apocalyptic. "Not all is lost," said one observer, "because of weak demand, lack of investments and sales." Mexican companies, he feels, will just have to learn to live without profits for a while. The Bolsa's stock index, which anticipated the crisis last year and sank to 450 points in August after hitting a high...
...Coward once went backstage and tartly informed the two leading players in one of his shows that their performance was "a triumph of nevermind over doesn't-matter." If Coward were around to chide Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for a similar self-indulgence, he would have to trip them up on the way to the bank. Both are said to receive $70,000 per week. Coward may have written Private Lives but Midas cast this revival...
...living on his late wife's money on a ranch somewhere in Bunuel country. He reads, plays chess against a computer, vigorously conducts the music he plays on his hifi. Sometimes he visits his mistress in Salamanca, more frequently he calls on his only friend, a priest, to chide him with anticlerical chat. He has become less worldly than the good father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren who senses in him, despite their differences in age and sex, a kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very...