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...reluctant to halt economic growth just to please foreign moneymen. Thus, no sudden solution is likely to emerge. Says one IMF official: "It is a negotiating process that will run through most of the 1980s." Mexican Finance Secretary Silva Herzog last week recalled Economist John Maynard Keynes' dictum: "Men will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives." Silva Herzog then glumly added that Latin American debtors and U.S. bankers probably have a lot of exploring ahead of them. -By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/Cartagena
...which is of World War II-vintage spy movies, they work in parodies of Bond-style adventures and beach-blanket and malt-shop rock-'n'-roll musicals. Omar Sharif is the veteran star recruited to mock his image and collect the good-sport award from audiences. The dictum that less is more means nothing here; pace and profligacy are everything. This time, though, the creative group has neglected to build to the kind of giddy, everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink climax that made Airplane! such a memorable exercise in anarchy. Top Secret! plays more like a pillow fight...
...Clark praised publicizing the issues unequivocally. On Jesse Jackson, Clark remarked, "obviously a Black who does not know his place; he has been very effective in projecting civil rights into a new arena." A theorist by trade, he praised Thurgood Marshall's dictum quoting that judge as saying "'We must use racism to combat racism.' If white children are considered more important than Black children by their communities, [we should] expose them to the real world, to the real community...
PLAYWRIGHT Luigi Pirandello shattered the stage conventions of an era with his 1921 masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author. He held up the magic mirror of theatre to theatre itself, thus reversing Shakespeare's dictum that "all the world's a stage." Pirandello's six characters broke down the barriers separating art from ordinary life and, in the process, exposed the inadequacies of both...
...basis of Deng's pragmatic philosophy is summed up in his oft quoted dictum "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." The practical effects of that maxim have centered on the area in which Mao made his costliest errors: agriculture. During 25 years in power, Mao channeled the vast bulk of all investment into heavy industry, while neglecting to ensure a corresponding rise in food production. At the same time, he encouraged his people to maintain the country's explosive birth rate. Because of this, and a striking rise...