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...language barrier is what confounds the average tourist in Moscow. One is reduced to the most basic sounds and gestures to get around the city. Curious pidgin words, rather the way the Sioux talk in old western films, are produced-to no effect whatsoever. My first attempt at a conversation in Russian -just to say that I had tried-was with an elderly fisherman staring morosely at the tiny float of his line in the murk of the Moscow River. I rehearsed behind him, peering into my pocket dictionary, and when I thought I had the word right...
...several Burger Court decisions that have narrowed the free-press protections of the First Amendment, they believed that this one presented the greatest threat to a reporter's ability to protect confidential sources. But then, as news organizations braced for an anticipated wave of court-inspired raids, a curious thing happened: none occurred...
American sports fans will have a curious amnesia about the 1980 games. Not only were the U.S. athletes at home, but television coverage was patchy as well. There were snippets on the evening news and slightly longer reports on the morning talk shows, but, altogether, coverage was only a fraction of the 150 hours NBC had planned before it withdrew from its contract to televise the games as part of the U.S. protest...
...three Puma helicopters and two Hercules C-130 transports, a combined force of 230 British marines and French paratroopers swooped down on the sleepy New Hebrides island of Espiritu Santo. They were armed and ready for combat. But the invading force was greeted with garlands of roses and the curious gaze of 1,000 of the island's anything-but-hostile inhabitants...
Ouch! As with a lot of other things in this curious little movie, which has the bland air of a sitcom but is blacker in spirit than it pretends to be, there is bitter, discomfiting truth in that moment. Writer Kaufman's guiding spirit is not misogynistic; he lays about him with a fine, impartial hand. For example, Jane Curtin, who could turn out to be Saturday Night Live's most valuable contribution to the movies, plays a woman reduced to instant penury when her husband abandons her and raids all their bank accounts before informing...