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...Secaucus. Some songs are sung, a few partners change, and the whole gang is falsely arrested for mur dering a deer - or, as one of them describes the charge, "Bambicide." Sayles has appropriated the discursive, episodic format of many recent films (and the spirit of that charming, intelligent Swiss com edy Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000), but he constructs individual scenes with the deftness of a Billy Wilder. His dialogue often circles back on, and en riches, itself. He creates more than a dozen complex, contradictory characters through their speech rhythms, the way they walk...
...West Indies. The man's speech was obviously that of a Scot. He had an air of authority, yet Bell concluded that he was not an officer. The reason: he did not remove his hat-a miscue that Bell knew could only have been committed by a non-com not yet used to civilian ways...
Europe must also accept the consequences of its prosperity and potential power by shouldering a greater share of the com mon defense, doing more to support NATO's crumbling southern flank, and playing a role in strategic areas beyond the NATO theater. That all this would require revived American strength, a military buildup, and better leadership is obvious...
...boardrooms. The latst victim: Maurice R. Valente, 51, fired iast week as president of RCA Corp. after just six months on the job. Like CBS President John D. Backe, dismissed seven weeks ago by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, Valente had been the heir apparent to a major communications com pany. RCA is the parent company...
...misnomer and misspelling was added missed opportunity. The top California colt, Codex, was ineligible to com pete after his trainer forgot to enter the horse's name on the Kentucky Derby nominating list. Codex had won the Hollywood Derby and beaten Affirmed's time in winning the Santa Anita Derby, so his absence weakened the field considerably. Training injuries kept other key colts from the contest. Adelphi University Mathematics Professor William Quirin ran a computer comparison of Derby entries and passed harsh judgment: "This is the second worst crop of three-year-olds to come along...