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Even the defeat of the ERA means just another redrafting, a further extension of the debate. There is one point on which feminists and most of their foes can now agree: there is no going back. The only question is how to define the future and how to cope with the challenges that the changing role of women will present...
Except that one door is adamantly stuck. It is one more maddening problem for the director (Paul Eddington), who divides his time between lechery and Valium. He has to cope with a woozy old ham (Michael Aldridge) who makes only two kind of entrances: pre-cue and post-cue. "I thought I heard my voice," he says blearily. And then there is the Stanislavski Method actor who wants a profound psychological reason as to why he has to exit with a plate of sardines...
...unease about Haig's de parture centered on the fact that the most knowledgeable and experienced foreign policy hand in an Administration not noted for diplomatic expertise had quit at a moment when the U.S. was trying to cope with a host of challenging global troubles. In the Middle East, the U.S. is desperately attempting to patch together some kind of settlement in Lebanon, for fear that the Israeli invasion of the country might set the whole region aflame-or, at minimum, irretrievably damage American interests in the Arab world. In Europe, the anger of American allies...
...last installment of what he has always thought of as a trilogy was to be set in the Roman Colosseum, with the big fight against a Russian. But autobiography took over. Says Stallone: "I wanted to reveal the flip side of the fame game. We're conditioned to cope with failure, but there are no platitudes for dealing with success. Seven years had passed since Rocky. Panic and fear set in. I used those emotions to get back to the person I was before all the glamour and notoriety. Rocky is a once-in-a-lifetime coming together...
...able to speak more forthrightly about the issues at stake and about the reception the President is likely to receive from his peers. Although the assessments differ in accent and tone, they are united by two strong, recurring themes: the need to control the arms race and to cope with a global economic crisis...