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...success of the Games was Ueberroth's, and America's, unanswerable reply to the Soviets. The Games drew a vivid implicit contrast between American and Soviet styles--the American Games all light and air and flashing motion (the essence of freedom dramatized), while the Soviets sulked in their totalitarian dusk...
...loneliness of a largely unoccupied dug out; the careworn faces of the managers; the vast summer skies that arch over the diamond, shading imperceptibly to dusk behind the light towers. Baseball, as The New Yorker's Roger Angell notes in his graceful text, is not as fast a game as television coverage makes it seem. With its qualities of silence and waiting, it "invites us really to go slow, for a change, almost to stop, in order to reflect on what is before us and what is to come." So does this clothbound hall of fame...
...just after dusk when the French-built Falcon 20 flew over the presidential palace and the adjacent U.S. ambassador's residence in the Beirut suburb of Baabda. But then the plane took a second turn over the compound, and Lebanese soldiers, suspecting a terrorist attack, opened fire with antiaircraft guns. Fortunately they missed their target, a private plane owned by the Saudi Arabian Golden Contracting Co. The pilot had veered off course while approaching Beirut Airport. Aerial traffic controllers were able to guide the jet to a safe landing...
...Quiha, grieving parents wrap the bodies of their children in burlap parcels tied with string and carry them to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the neighboring village. There, as priests under bright umbrellas chant ageless prayers, the tiny bodies are placed in a long trench. And each dusk in Bati, when the sun burns red and fierce, four men carry bodies from the house of the dead up a steep hill to their common grave. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by James Wilde/Bati, with other bureaus
...actress. Lumet introduces the characters in brief cameos, but these supposedly comic sketches are disappointingly inadequate. They simply lack punch. One exception is Gilly's meeting with a lonely gay salesman on the ferry to Fire Island, where Garbo has a home. As they wander along the beach at dusk, he describes his lonely personal life. Finally, the mute lighting is perfect, providing a discrete backdrop for this sensitive scene. The scene aptly demonstrates Lumet's talent for a more serious genre, and reinstates his heavy handed attempt at comedy...