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...they have the money to do so Perhaps the strongest credentials belong to Robert R. Kiley, deputy mayor in White's pre-machine years and a former MBTA general manager, Kiley, though, has less than a tenth of what the mayor has in the bank. White's clever play of briefly raising the possibility of a strong ran by State Senate President William Bulgar, a White ally, helped ensure the poverty of the anti-White forces by encouraging campaign contributors to take a wait-and-one attitude, while White built up his funding lead...
...timing was, at best, unfortunate. For weeks the Soviet Union had waged a clever campaign to convince America's nervous NATO allies that the U.S. was stubbornly opposed to any real progress in the Geneva talks on limiting intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. By contrast, Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov grandly revealed that he was willing to make generous-sounding "concessions." There were bitter divisions in the Reagan Administration over how to respond. The confusion was compounded last week when the President fired his arms control chief, Eugene Rostow, 69, and replaced him with Kenneth Adelman, 36, an arms...
...side, is a disembodied thing that lies ulcerating on a bed next to the suffering knight. Most startling of all is the changing of Parsifal from a man (Michael Kutter) into a woman (Karen Krick) at the moment he rejects the erotic advances of the temptress Kundry (Edith Clever). This apparently signifies Parsifal's transformation from a callow youth to a hero, as Krick's grim, Joan of Arc visage emphasizes. Yet the device, like so many others in the film, is arbitrary. Wagner's opera is merely a pretext for the director, a frame on which...
...offguard answer or, failing that, to describe the subject's evasive tics and mannerisms. Hatchet jobs survive, among other places, in the Style section of the Washington Post, whose good cultural coverage and criticism are burdened by a relentless ambition to be with-it and clever. (In its year-end listing of what is In and Out, the Post proclaims 1983 as the year "when it is really Out to be In," which rendered pointless the whole silly exercise...
...techniques. Filmed at various speeds, the movie blasts too far forward in a flurry of quickly edited footage of Charlie's arrival on the island. Various scenes are introduced--as if in a silent film--with a paragraph describing the proper procedure for that part of the wedding. These "clever" filming devices deter from the movie's overall effect, confusing the central action...