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...weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next record comes faster, it ought to be even better...
...backstage story as entertaining as this deserves the best of punch lines: rave reviews, big business, Oscars all around. But The Cotton Club-the movie, not the gossip machine-deserves less. The volatile drama that attended its making rarely flares onscreen; working at flash point made no sparks fly. On even the calmest of sets, the premise would have shown promise: to blend the early talkies' two most popular genres, the gangster film and the musical, into a sort of Public Enemy Goes to 42nd Street or, modernized, The Godfather Gets One from the Heart. Why, then...
...open-air funeral Mass in front of St. Stanislaw Kostka Church, all but enveloping the building and spilling down the neighboring streets. For the first time since the military crackdown, Walesa addressed an enormous crowd. At the very mention of his name, Poles began to cheer and flash the V-for-victory sign. "We swear that we will never forget his death," Walesa declared. "A Poland that has such priests has not lost and shall never be lost...
Harvard junior Ken Tarezy quickly scooped up the free ball at the 20 and the Harvard offense had, in a flash picked up 38 yard...
Instead of blocking talks between East and West Germany [WORLD, Sept. 17], the Soviets should realize that Germany is the flash point between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. Were Germany reunified as a neutral country and barred, like Japan, from building offensive forces, it would join Sweden, Austria and Yugoslavia as a buffer between the two groups. Both superpowers could then reduce their missiles and occupying armies...