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...double-barreled U.S. strategy, defined privately by Reagan to aides as "Show our outrage, but keep talking," reached a climax late in the week in Madrid, at a meeting of foreign ministers of the 35 states that had participated in the three-year Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Working sessions of the conference ended on Tuesday with an agreement that does no more than schedule a series of future conferences and bind the signatories to pledges about human rights, like the right to form free trade unions, that hardly anyone thinks can be enforced. Still, it once seemed...
...Moore's knowing decor and costumes), Strange Invaders exposes the banalities and excesses of the popular art they produced. The classy cast (Paul LeMat, Louise Fletcher, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid) plays it deadpan but without a hint of derision, and coaxes the movie toward a full-throttle inspirational climax. As an evocation of the American '50s going on '80s, Strange Invaders is what Twilight Zone: The Movie could and should have been...
...ballyhoo the two-seater sports car they will introduce this month, Pontiac executives summoned the press to a sneak preview in a cavernous auto plant. At the climax of the meeting, officials did not show off the car. Instead, they unfurled a banner displaying the result of their hard work. FIERO, it said, revealing the auto's name, which is Italian for "proud." It was no small disclosure. Detroit carmakers spend millions of dollars each year dreaming up prospective auto names, and they risk much more when they finally choose...
THREE HOURS IN LENGTH, director Magaril's production varies widely in quality. The cast seems to walk through certain scenes, such as the mini-climax which occurs when Christine (Debbie Wasser) kills Ezra (Benajah Cobb). The underplayed emotions defuse the scene's potential. At other points, though, the tension is very real. A card game between mother and daughter and the final conversation between brother and sister provide a genuine spark...
...issue has never been settled in the public mind. I.R.A. killings in Northern Ireland and Britain, along with rising criminality, have helped lead 77% of Britons, according to the latest Gallup poll, to favor the return of the death penalty for terrorist murderers. Last week the nation reached the climax of an emotional argument over the subject that divided the government, mobilized the clergy, aroused the police and dominated the press. After 6½ hours of debate, the House of Commons voted decisively (368 to 223) against a motion to restore capital punishment...