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...conventional characters and ideas. "Oh, get on with it," one snorts, setting his books aside half finished. "Oh, get on with it," one mutters sooner than that as this movie creeps -- uncreepily -- along. When the things you remember most fondly about a spy picture are its panoramic vistas of faraway places, everybody is in trouble...
...wants to increase supplies. Other much needed measures would have little if any impact for a year or more. But perhaps the latest crisis will finally drive home the point that America must take steps to keep its economic well-being from being hostage to the whims of faraway nations...
...visitor might think himself in the wrong country. Here a Benetton, there a Chloe, a Chanel, farther along a Giorgio Armani, a Fendi, a Valentino. The name of every other restaurant seems to begin with le or la, and every other menu includes a dish or two from faraway places. Better off than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided...
Harvard Coach Bill Cleary is concerned about more recent history. His squad has struggled of late, dropping five of its last six regular-season games. Harvard's new athletic director would rather not end his coaching career in faraway Lynah Rink...
...were stimulants to heroic-romantic imaginings. Self-transcendence, if you will. The movies were especially potent in the way they worked on the deprived sensibilities of provincial youngsters. Sneaking out from under parental disapproval, sheltering in the dark under the big, glowing screen, innocently absorbing its fantastic representations of faraway realities, surrendering to the belief that those realities must be true (unendurable to think that the whole world was as constricted as one little corner of Sicily was), Toto comes close to becoming a generational archetype, transcending the particulars of his own situation...