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...previous films, like Halloween and The Fog, Director John Carpenter has proved himself adept at a kind of minimalist spookiness. It is a mistake to do away with that huge and unreasonable vegetable and the scary possibility that it may be lurking behind every closed door. A deeper problem is that Carpenter's people are not strongly or wittily characterized (though Kurt Russell makes a stalwart hero). Not caring much about them, one's attention fastens on the Thing's spectacular depredations. When it invades a body, a man's guts may open and snap shut...
Although freezing fog appeared to hamper the British at week's end, time was indeed running out-and not just for the besieged Argentine soldiers. Britain's rapid drive toward the island capital had touched off an eleventh-hour flurry of diplomatic activity that sought to prevent a final bloody battle, which could make a bad situation worse. A head-on clash at Port Stanley could not only lead to appalling casualties on both sides but further inflame Latin American bitterness against both Britain and the U.S. It might also allow the Soviets to gain influence...
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...Forty years ago, her young man, as gay and unaware as an English butterfly blinded by fog, fluttered amazed across this cerulean light, sagged, and exploded...
...August of 1973 in California was glorious. Each morning, seduced from official papers, I sat on the veranda behind my office at the Western White House in San Clemente and watched as the sun burned the fog off the ocean. Occasionally I saw a slight, stoop-shouldered figure amble along the edge of the cliff beyond which lay only the beach and the Pacific. In that tranquil setting Richard Nixon was enduring the long final torment of his political career. Outside of the seclusion of San Clemente, the country buzzed with speculation about whether he would survive as President...