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...could have been much higher, but the driver aimed his truck at a three-story administrative annex rather than the crowded chancellery building. About an hour later, a similar car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy, blowing a 30-ft. hole in the wall surrounding the compound. A crystal chandelier crashed onto Ambassador Jean Bressot's desk, missing him by inches. Other car bombs went off at a residential complex where many foreigners live, and at three Kuwaiti installations. There were six known killed and about 60 injured in the six explosions...
Yentl is a big, good-looking movie with only three main characters-a chamber piece played in a Crystal Palace that shivers in the soft focus of sexual ambiguity. As director, Streisand has seen to it that Yentl and Avigdor and Hadass don't get lost in the sumptuous locations and somber, classical mise en scene. Patinkin has harnessed his talent and energy; he can bounce off a bookcase in the thrall of scholarship, or sit tense and still as Avigdor tries to figure out the riddle of Anshel's identity. Amy Irving, of the honeyed voice...
...what about his delectability? Most polls tend to show Mondale and Glenn equally strong against President Reagan. One might wish for a crystal ball in trying to predict the outcome of the post-convention campaign but the recent past indicates that if the race is close a debate may be decisive. Certainly in the 1976 contest between Ford and Carter and again in 1980, a debate had a major impact. On the basis of Mondale's showing against Bob Dole in the 1976 vice presidential debate I would much prefer Mondale over Glenn in a debate showdown with President Reagan...
Writer Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers) and Director Costa-Gavras (Z) know how to use movie archetypes to manipulate political loyalties. The Israeli prosecutor has the superior smile of a bureaucrat conquistador. The Palestinian is tall, thin, suntanned, nice to babies; and he has unflinching crystal blue eyes (would they lie to you?). And yet, the film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna...
SOMEWHERE ON INTERSTATE SS, N.Y.--My crystal ball broke yesterday, and for the first time this year, I had to leave Cambridge in search of Veritas...