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...give her none of the stodginess but all of the cool of the great old heroines. Karen Allen plays Jones's companion with a wonderful blend of humor, cynicism and toughness--a hardy, reliable beauty whose prettiness is just a little bit off and who is a perfect counterpart to Indiana's laconic stoicism. Allen was wonderful in The Wanderers and then, for reasons best known to God, also starred in the abysmal Small Circle of Friends. Allen has always exuded more energy, though, than her troglodyte roles were willing to deal with. But in Raiders, Allen is allowed...
Last week's letter from the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee to its Polish counterpart was a graphic and forbidding message, couched in the distinct language of Communist doublespeak. To understand the Soviets' criticisms and quarrels with Poland's "socialist renewal," opposite words must, in the fashion of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, be substituted: for "free and independent," read subservient; for "counterrevolution" read reform and democratization; and for "protection of the socialist commonwealth" read intervention by Warsaw Pact forces. Excerpts from the letter, as translated by the New York Times...
There are parts aplenty. In the Senate waits Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, who is barely lukewarm to Reagan's tax plan, and Louisiana's Russell Long, the committee's ranking Democrat. Long and his House counterpart, Barber Conable of New York, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, do not command enough votes to pass a tax bill, but both have the power to grease, or gum up, the works. Long has said, only half in jest, "I think every Senator should have at least one amendment" to the tax measure...
...London. Says American League Player Representative Doug DeCinces of the Baltimore Orioles: "Time and again we've tried to discuss our situation and time and again we've been treated like spoiled kids." The situation has got to the point where DeCinces' National League counterpart, Bob Boone of the Philadelphia Phillies, will not talk about it. Says New York Mets Player Representative Rusty Staub...
...loss of the freshmen from the Sprints means the freshmen will race only once with the rest of the team this year, at Navy on April 26. The lightweights have a much skimpier schedule than their heavyweight counterpart, and their absence from the Sprints means a much bigger notch in their schedule...