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Having no expert to call on (they must all be out LOVING today) I'll just hazard my own guess: Hallmark's LOVE was conceived on a Manhattan subway car by a fat, bald, 35-year-old greeting card writer with thick glasses, a perspiring brow, a poster of Cheryl Tiegs on his closet door and a conscience burdened by the same aboriginal sins Alexander Portnoy complained about. In other words, the Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but somebody is trying to pervert Valentine...
Though Bell maintained his evenhandedness in his files, he remembers: "I became convinced during the cross-examination of Hiss in the second trial that he had committed perjury. He quibbled incessantly on irrelevant matters and skimmed quickly over what was relevant - that, plus the typewriter, the documents and the expert analyses. My perceptions haven't changed over the years; they were reinforced by Weinstein 's book...
...gestures of appreciation for their undercover work. Hiss admitted receiving a red oriental rug from Chambers, but said it was in 1935 and was partial payment for a debt. Two other recipients told the FBI that they had received their rugs in early 1931. Moreover, a rug expert hired by the defense established from a description on a sales slip that Hiss's rug was apparently one of four that had been bought by a Communist agent for Chambers in December...
Indeed, some sense of growth in Andy would give the film a little more resonance than that of a well-made sitcom. It has good gags, and expert performances by Gene Saks as a dyspeptic manager and by Hervé Villechaize as a midget wrestler who refuses to think small. They offer intimations of a picture that might have been memorable instead of merely inoffensive...
...Ethiopia, Washington has resisted repeated Somalian requests for military aid. Somalia's position is difficult for the West to endorse wholeheartedly: as the aggressor in the Ogaden, it has embarrassed the Organization of African Unity, whose charter forbids any breaching of established borders. Says one U.S. African expert: "Sending military aid now would open a Pandora...