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...like creatures, armed with spray guns and injection needles, demonically waging germ warfare. But the ad that filled three-quarters of a page in the New York Times last week was far more sophisticated. WHAT HOLDS BACK PROGRESS AT THE GENEVA TALKS? queried the headline. In four columns of dull gray type, paid for by the Soviet embassy in Washington, an editorial reprinted from Pravda accused the U.S. of torpedoing arms control by stubbornly forging ahead with Star Wars, the Reagan Administration's plan to build a space-based umbrella against nuclear attack...
...injustice is heard loud and clear, and some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
Today's newspaper is an odd mix of "fair" news, bland editorials and strong views of licensed polemicists. Fairness is not required of the polemicists; it would dull their act. These merchants of anger and scorn range from Mary McGrory's liberalism to the caustic contentiousness of William Buckley, George Will, James Kilpatrick and William Safire (those on the right now have the momentum, the self-assurance and the numbers...
...then snitch about it in a thinly veiled novel. Anyone have a problem with that? Pine used to do publicity for Miramax, and she puts the grade-A material she gathered there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark and delicious...
After reading the past year’s press coverage about Harvard’s purported social struggles, one might get the impression that Cambridge’s elite scholars are in fact quite dull...