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...jets carried out their mission, Peres had adversaries of a different kind to confront at his regular Sunday Cabinet meeting: hard-line members of the Likud bloc, the other major partner in his national unity government. Likud Cabinet members, led by Deputy Prime Minister David Levy and Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon, pounced on Peres. They charged that his U.N. speech violated a Labor-Likud policy that opposes an international Middle East peace conference. Unless Peres offered "clarifications," Levy and Sharon threatened that Likud would bolt the government. Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister Without...
Though they don't sport long white coats and M.D. badges, the students observed in one recent tutorial session resembled a conference of doctors brainstorming over a cutting-edge clinical problem. Since Goodenough doesn't often volunteer the answers, students appear to confront the clinical and basic science issues as if those issues had never before been discovered, addressed, answered, and summarily entombed in a textbook...
judo the tabloid lowprice anguish propaganda and profit form to confront its readers with a rainbow of beauty and words ringing with truth and transcendence...
...Because she is a good enough actress, Close can mimic with precise, convincing detail the actions of an aggressive, competent lawyer. But she is best, and perhaps most relaxed, when a moment of real inner, psychological drama is required of her. Near the end of the film, Close must confront the murderer herself. The moment she realizes this, a horrible, numbing serenity overcomes her. It is as if she has transcended hope and fear. And finally, it is as if she is freed from the limiting claustrophobia of her role...
...fact, it is Sarah's desertion which provides the cure to Macon's existential homesickness. By the time she comes back desiring her old security and admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler...