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...DIRECTORS can confound critics as thoroughly as Louis Malle. Pretty Baby gave him the perfect opportunity to produce a beautiful film with a good does of social commentary. But instead he made a smooth inoffensive period piece, a restrained account of pedophilia that cast glances but spared innuendo...
...ballistic missiles; in the event that our land-based forces are taken out by a Soviet first strike, they will provide a survivable strategic system capable of destroying Soviet silos, if necessary. How the Reagan administration will handle counting and verification aspects of SLCMs--which are small enough to confound detection--under some future arms control agreement is not clear, however...
...prisoners. Each time new volunteers are sought, Maze leaders review the awful effects of starvation. They want no false bravado and no dropouts. The prisoners stand silent against the cell-block doors, ears pressed to cracks in the framing, and listen to block commanders speaking in Gaelic to confound the guards, describe the ulcerated throats, the tooth fillings that drop out, the skin that turns so dry that bones break through, the inevitable blindness before death...
Gardner and his colleagues may have been right to start with something safe. But they may also have established audience expectations of straightforward revelry that Terra Nova will confound. If the Festival Theater is eventually to stand with the opera and the chamber festival, it must play even farces for their fullest meaning-and surely must lift its audience beyond farce. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Santa...
...Adversaries large and small test our will and seek to confound our resolve." So said Ronald Reagan in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last July. At that moment, half a world away, a Communist leader from El Salvador, Shafik Jorge Handal, was visiting Soviet-bloc countries in search of arms for Ms country's leftist guerrillas. In retrospect, the chain of events that made El Salvador the first focus of the new Administration's foreign policy seems inexorable...