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French President Francois Mitterrand took the lead last week in urging his European partners to consider retaliatory measures against the U.S. He declared: "We cannot be content to turn [summit meetings] into just so much internal propaganda for each of the participants. In that case, they should not be held at all." The French President was threatening by implication to boycott next year's summit, to be held in the U.S. Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took one look at the original Brussels text and told her aides, "I cannot put my signature to this declaration, which...
...more equal partnership; men want close male friendships, but find emotional intimacy vaguely embarrassing; men must learn to talk about their emotional problems and to negotiate everything with their wives. Get the idea? You should--there's nothing terribly original or controversial in Being a Man Bell seems content to leave us with one of those "there are no easy answers" admonitions...
...They are very content to stay in their own house," she explains, adding that the neighborhood's reputation for friendliness is an "ethnic closeness" that is much greater within a particular ethnic group...
...bold to praise Tropic of Cancer, George Orwell wrote that Miller's value lay in his very ordinariness: " 'The average sensual man' has been given the power of speech, like Balaam's ass." That is not an inconsiderable gift, but Mailer will not be content with it. To him, "one has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity...
...appeal of Gregory's Girl than wistfulness for the kind of adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...