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...revolutionary road show, the event was unmistakably a flop. While visiting members of Nicaragua's Sandinista government waited on a wooden dais in a baseball stadium in the northwestern town of Chinandega last week, an estimated 4,000 local supporters filed dutifully onto the dusty grounds below. Hoping to add both life and numbers to the disappointing crowd, Sandinista organizers urged the audience to march through town as a way of drawing attention to the May Day rally. The demonstrators complied. When the parade returned some 30 minutes later, however, only half of the participants returned with...
...whether Reagan will remember anything he said this week after he returns across the Pacific. We of course welcome friendly relations with the world's most populous country, but, coming after a period of chilly rhetoric by the Americans, the sudden friendship does not ring true. Why the flip-flop...
HART'S handling of the gun control issue also helps put the lie to his more-independent-than-thou image. If the candidate's Isreali embassy flip flop failed to convince observers of his susceptibility to special-interstates, his un control waffle should persuade them...
...axiomatic: if a man falls in love with a mythical creature in a movie, the result is bound to be a gagging spoonful of whimsy. All credit, then, to Splash for having a mermaid capable of turning her fins into shapely gams flop up on Manhattan's in salubrious shores, where a quick education in paranoia, cynicism and the perils of materialism has ever been available to out-of-towners. For from that unpromising situation emerges a romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature...
Clearly, Kurzman's articles a flop. His argument about a "Jewish taqiya" is unfounded and his criticisms of Israel are overly broad and unsubstantiated. Still there are quite valid reason to criticize Israeli government policy and such criticisms are being made. Let us hope that a "Jewish taqiya" will never come into existence. Jordan B. Millstein...