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SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much class but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where everybody upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The setting is swank, the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's clever comedy of sexual manners...
Meanwhile, the problem of Western euphoria over Gorbachev is complicated by Moscow's having been particularly clever in its understanding of the public relations value of unilateral announcements -- something the West has yet to learn. When the Soviets make unilateral announcements, Moscow reaps a tremendous p.r. benefit, and I'm left with the reality -- continued huge Soviet military capabilities. It's difficult to get the public to realize that unilateral pronouncements uncodified by treaty are easy to turn around, as are intentions generally. I'm routinely criticized for a supposedly overly simplistic insistence on assessing capabilities rather than intentions. Well...
...despite the fact that he has been in charge for more than four years. "Gorbachev's greatest strength may very well be his pragmatism," mused a Moscow intellectual. "He is not dogmatic about carrying out any set program. Instead, he maneuvers in and out of every situation like a clever fox." Nonetheless, with empty store shelves and seething ethnic tensions, many edgy Soviets are counting the days in hopes that the first session of the new congress will mark the point of no return on the path of reform...
KINGSTON'S racy, invigorating style makes Tripmaster Monkey more than a retelling of The Dharma Bums with an Asian-American twist, more than yet another Less Than Zero tale of disillusionment. Her style is clever and humorous, not ponderous or heavy-handed. She meanders in and out of first-person narration, and dialogue eases its way between Wittman's thoughts and actions...
...their homes in warm southern waters to the chilly Puget Sound will endanger the animals. Moreover, one of their former trainers asserts that the Navy has abused the dolphins. Still other critics question the wisdom of entrusting the security of the nation's underwater nuclear arsenal to animals, however clever...