Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former California judge who last January replaced Richard Allen at the NSC after serving for almost a year as Haig's deputy, Clark came into office with a noteworthy lack of knowledge about world affairs. He has yet to display a sharp analytic ability in the field. He apparently sees his role as being "an honest broker of ideas," presenting options to the President for consideration, rather than advocating a policy line of his own. "I would hope my viewpoints are no different from the President's," Clark has said. According to one top adviser, Clark also...
Still, Israel is now in a position of strength. If the PLO can some-how be convinced to recognize Israel and abandon terrorism, Menachem Begin will have a unique opportunity to display the courage of benevolence. First, he will have to renounce the ideal of a "Great Israel" that would incorporate the occupied territories. Then, he must sit at the negotiating table with a demilitarized PLO, which, for all its disunity, still constitutes the closest thing to a legitimate leadership of the Palestinian people...
...superchocolates they display are silky-smooth confections assembled from acmic ingredients: hand-picked beans from Sri Lanka or Venezuela, premium dairy products, fresh as well as dried fruits and nuts. Just the crucial "conching," or blending process, of the chocolate can take up to 72 hours a batch, vs. about nine for assembly-line chocolates. Ordinary bonbons are sprayed with chocolate, but chic chocs are hand-dipped to build an even quarter-inch-layer thickness. Another reason for their high cost is that they contain no artificial preservatives and can be stocked only in small quantities. Of Corné Toison...
...might be possible to care more about Haider and his plight if he were not such a typically alienated antihero. The hero of the evening is Alan Howard. His is a meticulously stylized performance and a memorable display of the actor's craft. Howard's array of arid classroom gestures and pinched facial nerves is matched by a voice that barks, chokes, melts and freezes. And when he does a close-to-floor-level, slow-motion goose-step, the monstrous history of the Third Reich seems to be marching past...
...finally more complex than Ford's victimized flatfoot. Because of this imbalance of star roles, and because this drastically recut movie has a plot that proceeds by fits and stops, Blade Runner is likely to disappoint moviegoers hoping for sleek thrills and derring-do. But as a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers. The pleasures of texture have rarely been so savory. -By Richard Corliss