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...brazenly charged that the U.S. had murdered innocent sailors aboard the Iran Ajr. Yet on that very day a mine presumed to be theirs took ) the lives of four apparent innocents on a Panamanian-register ed research vessel that sank so fast there was no time to radio a distress call...
Most of the humor stems from the way Almodovar plays with our notions about love and relationships. He takes special delight in destroying the easy, escapist nature of most melodrama. He even overturns the convention of the damsel in distress. Maura, as the transsexual actress, is sexy and provocative--Almodovar makes the audience lust after her and want to protect her. At the same time, we are constantly reminded that she was once...
...Washington's distress, the Guatemala plan has almost totally eclipsed ) the Reagan Administration's version in public discussions. Three of the contras' six civilian directors embraced the accord last week, saying they would return to Nicaragua if conditions for a cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7 were met. "We are prepared to give the plan a fair try," said Alfonso Robelo. "We won't put up any hurdles." Contra Military Commander Enrique Bermudez, however, asserted that the rebels would not lay down their weapons on Nov. 7, nor would they accept an amnesty offered by Ortega. During their meeting with...
Terra has voiced distress that kids come out of high school knowing more about Cezanne than Samuel Morse. But so what? One is fundamental in a way that the other is not. People should know about both, ideally; but they should know more about Cezanne. Certainly there is a need for broader and more discriminating knowledge of American 18th and 19th century art, but the present danger is overvaluation: the assumption, dear to cultural jingoes, that premodernist American painting and sculpture is a special case whose merits cannot be judged fairly by the general standards implicit in European...
...English teacher who yearns to be taken seriously for his literary credentials while still shadowboxing within the tough-guy genre. In his two most recent novels, A Catskill Eagle and Taming a Sea-Horse, Parker's private-eye hero Spenser embarked on studiedly medieval quests to rescue damsels in distress. Some fans admired the chivalric plots and illuminated prose; others, finding these adventures merely portentous, longed for a return to the snarly, wisecracking style of Parker's earlier books and the ABC-TV series spin-off, Spenser...