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Some of Western Europe's concerns will be on display for Ronald Reagan at the main diplomatic event of his controversial European visit, the annual economic summit meeting of seven leading industrial powers--the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Canada and Japan--that will take place in Bonn from May 2 to May 4. At the top of the summit agenda, along with problems of international trade, will be unhappiness over U.S. budget deficits, high interest rates and the uncertainties that the dollar is creating in European money markets...
...takeover attempt is in character for a man who has always been somewhat larger than life. Turner was forced out of his Brown University fraternity for burning down the homecoming display, and finally left the school after being suspended twice. He entered the family billboard business at 24, after his father committed suicide. Turner was so successful in his advertising venture that he was able to acquire and enlarge a foundering local UHF television station. In 1976 he started bouncing its signals off a satellite to cable-TV systems across the U.S. The result: Super-Station WTBS, which now reaches...
...rich as the cinematography, and moments of great poignancy?the mother's efforts to persuade the prettiest girl in town to have dinner with her retarded son, the lengths to which the sister goes to defend her brothers from bullies?temper the hardness the Gao children sometimes display. Gu packs his film with vivid period details: boys play hacky-sack with a flaming chestnut, a couple preserves eggs in handfuls of sticky mud, a family's supply of coal dissolves under a sudden rain. The camerawork is flawless; the takes long and sinuous...
...fact, the exercise in coming to terms with death is leavened by humor—Dr. Bearing seizes all opportunities to display her own capacious wit, even mocking her deathbed scenes (“I never thought my life would be this corny”). The overall tone of the production, however, is grim; the jokes are more of a defense mechanism than the product of a genuinely insouciant attitude toward life...
...your battery is running low, go to Camera Settings, and then click on the Display menu to switch off or dim the backlights for your keypad and screen...