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...clearest sign of paradise lost is the state's crime rate. Between 1976 and 1980, murders climbed 53%, rape 61% and robbery 55%. Among 18 U.S. cities with a population of 500,000 to 1 million, Honolulu ranked fifth in larceny and ninth in car thefts last year. State officials last week reported that crime was down 8.1% for the first quarter of 1981, compared with the same period in 1980, but the dip hardly dents the growth of the problem in recent years. Admits Deputy Chief of Police Harold Falk Jr.: "Honolulu is no longer some isolated South...
...squabbling between Haig and the President's top aides, the Secretary had stopped trying to assert his prerogatives and had started pledging to be a team player. Reagan's enthusiastic welcome home, accompanied by a pointedly symbolic "photo opportunity" of the two men posing, was the clearest signal yet that Haig's new-found deference has probably saved...
...clearest sign of good cheer was a stock market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average surging last Wednesday to 1,015.22, an eight-year high. The market eased off later to end the week at 994.78. Wall Street has been strong since last fall, when polls showed that Ronald Reagan might defeat Jimmy Carter and bring a more pro-business atmosphere to Washington. Says Monte J. Gordon, research director for Dreyfus Corp., a large New York investment firm: "Reagan has been an aphrodisiac for the market...
Beyond the exotic cinematic locale and roguish approach, the clearest assets in Bye Bye Brazil are Jose Wilker and Betty Fariah as the veteran troupers. Wilker seems to have only two expressions--an unconvincingly heroic sternness and a wonderfully fatuous smile of beneficence--but he deploys them willingly. He provides a continual comic center to the film with his sly corruption and his charmingly sleazy hokum, often delivered at omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell...
...drawn-out writings," the University of Texas graduate says, adding that his models of clarity include Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and the King James Bible. All the letters are written early in the morning, "one, two, three, when the moonlight is in the window and my mind is the clearest." And each the product of an undivided attention: "I don't have a radio, a television, a telephone--you would be shocked at the simplicity of it all," Ratliff says...