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...that any plot requiring more than three people to keep their mouths shut is bound to fail, this premise will seem far fetched. For as the story develops, we see that hundreds are involved in running the research complex. Nevertheless, the picture is stylishly made and suspenseful, with the distinct advantage of having JoBeth Williams (the mom in Poltergeist) as a sheriff investigating the killings aided by a burnt-out New York City detective (Robert Urich, TV's Dan Tanna). She's spunky and believable, and she can make you care about her professional problems, her sputtery love...
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. I spent almost the entire day working on the comprehensive proposal, consulting very closely with other members of the American team. There were more than 50 distinct issues to be resolved. I was not getting much sleep, and fatigue was taking its toll. I knew that Sadat and I could come up with a reasonable agreement that a majority of Israelis would gladly accept. My major task was to convince Begin. In a way, I understood his dilemma. He was the one who was being pressured to change the private and public commitments of a lifetime...
Since then, Nordic designers have given every European style their distinct mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...
What are prisons for, Sy? Punishment mainly, he believes, of four distinct types. The first is one's loss of freedom. The second, the loss of a sense of responsibility: "You're expected to think for yourself and at the same time to follow orders without asking questions." The third kind of punishment he calls "sensory deprivation," the forced absence of family, of feeling. The only emotions one knows in prison, he says, are the "negatives" of anger and disappointment. And the fourth type? That, to Sy, is the most severe. "The worst punishment is being compelled...
...occupied Lebanon over the past 3,000 years. The history lesson is usually given with a wry smile and a knowing look, as if to say that armies have come and gone but Lebanon has always prospered. The newest occupiers are judged in comparison with their predecessors, a distinct advantage. The Syrians, who have been in Lebanon since 1976 as the main component of an Arab Deterrent Force, are generally disliked because of their heavyhandedness. Similarly, many Lebanese will not regret the departure of the P.L.O., which has run sizable parts of the south as a state within a state...