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Ironically, the Pope had avoided coming to Argentina earlier, precisely because of a political dispute: the conflicting claims of Argentina and Chile to the Beagle Channel islands and the adjoining strait in the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. That argument had threatened to erupt into war between the two countries until the claimants agreed to accept papal mediation. According to unofficial reports, the suggested terms of settlement award three islands to Chile and put the surrounding waters under shared sovereignty. Chile has declared itself ready to accept the solution. Argentina has not. Until the Falklands crisis forced a visit...
...romance to Cannes for its world premiere, and throughout the day he had loped down the Carlton corridors dodging the dozens of would-be interviewers, photographers and starlets, all cadging for a moment with the world's most successful director. In the Palais des Festivals he heard applause erupt throughout the screening and watched an audience of grim professionals laugh and cry after two weeks of wheeling and dealing. During the last minute of the film, the applause kept growing until the fadeout, when an exaltation of bravos enveloped Spielberg as if Pavarotti...
There Belushi blossomed into an archangel of the grotesque. His face-round and blandly menacing in repose, like a middle-level Mafioso's-could contort into semblances of slashing samurai, killer bees, Joe Cocker or Marlon Brando. Belushi's body, stolid as a '53 Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic...
...whistling past the graveyard, watching all the loveable aristos thwart those gnarly peasants. Never will you see a group of people more determined to have a good time than at opening night at the Pudding. By the end they are desparate for the traditional kick-line. They erupt when the hairy legs finally start pumping...
...religious riots began to erupt across Iran, Washington still believed the Shah to be in firm control, but the embassy's political officers were decidedly more pessimistic. Concluded a report that June: "The U.S. is supporting the Shah, hence religious ideologues attack the U.S. There are situations in which the U.S. could turn very swiftly into a scapegoat for Persian problems...