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...form beneath the superficial and cliched to point out a subtle statement, the message is buried in overkill. While the characters lives seem realistic, the happy ending strains the limits of credibility and the illusion quickly falls apart. The playwright's challenge is to make an audience chuckle and choke up in the same evening, but Passione is not an appropriate vehicle for anything except laughter and some pointed satire...
...hair and the sexy swagger of a Vegas lounge star. No wonder Leigh (Alexandra Paul), the prettiest girl on campus, is aswoon over Arnie. But she has tough competition in Christine. Such jealousy: when Leigh suggests that Arnie is too attached to his car, Christine forces the girl to choke, nearly to death, on some fast food. Such vindictiveness: three punk classmates of Arnie's push him around and Christine seeks them out and totals them. "Be careful what you call my car," Arnie warns his best friend (John Stock-well). "She's real sensitive...
...economic recovery. Regan won a round earlier this year when Feldstein drastically underestimated the strength of the recovery, earning himself the nickname "Dr. Gloom." More recently Regan has been battling with Feldstein over the deficit. The CEA chairman argues that excessive deficits will drive interest rates high enough to choke off the boom. Regan insists that there is no hard proof of this. Even if the deficit persists, he argues, the White House can afford to wait until 1985 to reduce...
What is more, there is impressive bipartisan agreement on the reasons for this course. The deficits may choke off the budding economic recovery, all right, but they may not do it-or at any rate, the damage may not be noticeable-until 1985. Meanwhile, there is no great public clamor for action. So with any luck, both tax increases and cuts in Government spending that might offend powerful groups of voters can be put off until after the elections. And if that turns out to be too late? Well...
...mainland, into a private sheltered lake for submarines armed with missiles that could strike the continental U.S. The southern half of Sakhalin bristles with at least six Soviet airfields and is merely 27 miles across the Strait of Soya from Japan's Hokkaido Island. The strait is a choke point for Soviet naval vessels moving from the Sea of Japan into the North Pacific. Vladivostok and Sovetskaya-Gavan are the main bases for the 820 ships of the Soviet Pacific fleet...