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...Fade-In. Ragtime piano, please. Former Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney has long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
...Journalist Rakowski wanted to do more than talk and write about his country; he wanted to be in on the action. His opportunity came last February, when Jaruzelski appointed him to negotiate with Solidarity. It was then, ironically, that Rakowski's reputation as a liberal began to fade. Perhaps naively, he thought Solidarity could be fashioned into a benign check on the government, but without power of its own. Rakowski became increasingly impatient with Solidarity's demands, and at one point last summer publicly accused the union of "unprecedented arrogance...
...bomb in the Israeli resort city of Tiberias in May 1979 that killed two youths and injured 36 others. Abu Eain (rhymes with plain) and his supporters have fought a 2½-year battle in U.S. courts against the extradition order, and the controversy refuses to fade away...
...Jackson is away," barked the TPA marshall. Bogart Jackson sauntered up to the ball, smiling at the memory of all the wayward three-irons he had hit on the practice range. Thwack, and Bogart Jackson was striding down the fairway, grinning at the knowledge that his characteristic fade placed him in an ideal position to go for the flagstick and had avoided the water on the right...
...such strained spots fade from importance next to the sensitive insight Domini nurtures in this impossible landscape. The devil narrator's most telling lines hide in throwaways, with the pretended unconsciousness increasing their force. "The one concrete proof of our changed relationship," he offers timidly, "...if indeed it is concrete proof, if indeed it was a changed relationship--is that Miplip and I became lovers." And when the "relationship" turns painful, "every single time I wondered if I could possibly survive (though how I got the idea that there is anything besides survival, I cannot imagine...