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...famous creation scenes on chapel ceilings? One wonders: since E. T. 's last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect to see the little alien in his next adventure merrily waddling along the surface of some suburban swimming pool, or turning Elliot's bedtime glass of water into something with a little more punch...
...scientists in "E. T." are cast in the most insidious roles of all. For most of the movie, they are shown only as disembodied legs, striding conspiratorially about as they seek out the little alien. When they arrive at Elliot's house, marching en masse in their spacesuits, it is nothing less than an enemy invasion. And it is in their custody that E. T. suffers his near-fatal relapse--they do not realize, as the movie's three children do, that what ails the creature is a deep-felt need to communicate with his home-star...
Says Detroit Psychiatrist Elliot Luby: "As time goes on there is a 'leper' effect, and some patients describe convictions of their own ugliness, contamination or even dangerousness." Says Kim Robertson, 35, a furniture repairman who lives near San Francisco: "I thought anyone in their right mind would stay away from me." Robertson did not date for two years, and when he did he avoided intimacy. "You don't take the phone number. You don't want to go through the rejection...
...long been an open secret in Washington that Ronald Reagan was decidedly unhappy with the Law of the Sea Treaty, a kind of constitution for the world's waters, sponsored by the U.N. Though former Ambassador Elliot Richardson, then Jimmy Carter's chief negotiator for the pact, endorsed a draft in 1980, the Reagan Administration announced early the next year that it wanted to take a closer look. This April, while 130 nations okayed a new draft, the U.S. was one of only four nations (the others: Turkey, Venezuela and Israel) to vote against it. In his final...
...ruling was in a large sense a victory because the court dropped the existing rule that a high official could also be sued if he acted maliciously. The court reasoned that this change would cut the growing number of such suits. Said the aides' lawyer, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson: "Public officials from school board members to White House advisers, and the public itself," should applaud this decision...