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...State Herman Cohen told Johnson and Taylor that the U.S. would sever relations with Liberia unless a truce was declared. Taylor, head of the 10,000-member National Patriotic Front of Liberia, took the hint and announced a unilateral cease- fire. But the prospect for fruitful negotiations remains dim: Taylor declared that his "government" was the only legitimate one and that he would "fight any attempt to install another one." The truce should at least afford some breathing space for the five-nation West African contingent, which has suffered from a confused chain of command...
...debate in the legislature turned tumultuous as delegates and economists rose to attack parts of all three economic reform proposals presented in the past week. The compromise supported by Gorbachev was criticized by supporters of both the other plans, and the chances of a broad consensus appeared dim...
...resemblance, as everyone in The Freshman keeps remarking, is striking. In certain lights, especially dim ones, Carmine Sabatini looks uncannily like Don Vito Corleone, the Godfather of blessed movie memory...
Even fans of rap music may find it hard to rally around Nasty, a danceable but dim-witted pop product that relies on countless descriptions of oral sex and genitalia, not to mention a knuckle-sandwich approach to women. But the moves against 2 Live Crew come on top of the obscenity charges against the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati for mounting a show of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work. Artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians have to wonder whether these actions herald an anti-obscenity campaign that could send them scrambling for cover...
THEATER: Three to the rescue of a dim London season...