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...officially adopting a hands-off stance toward the election outcome, the Reagan Administration has now swung almost as far away as possible from its earlier fond embrace of Marcos. To U.S. policymakers, a sure sign that Washington is now perceived as being impartial is that, as one diplomat says, "neither side is happy with...
...disjointed world in which Brazil (the name comes from a song which the hero is fond of singing) takes place, tragedy and absurdity are inextricably mixed, as is evident from the very first scenes. Early on, we are taken deep into the bowels of the Ministry of Information a bureaucratic, Leviathan institution no doubt based on Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A fastidious technician is clambering over an enormous teletype machine while in pursuit of an equally enormous, noisy fly, which he dispatches with his shoe. The fly falls into the machine, and causes it to type the name "Buttle...
...fact, Disney was particularly fond of France. In 1918, when he was 17, Disney lived in Paris while working as a Red Cross ambulance driver. His cartoon creations were a hit in France from the beginning. Generations of French children have grown up with Mickey, Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey) and the other Disney characters, and French tourists by the thousands visit the American Disney parks in California and Florida every year. While anti- Americanism has swelled up in other areas of French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse...
...pages; $45) gives those performances a step-by-step analysis tinctured with autobiography: "What's all this talk about me being teamed with Ginger Rogers?" the star asks his agent in 1934. "I will not have it." There is no substitute for seeing the fabulous originals, but this fond retrospective is an invaluable guidebook to the heights of Hollywood musicals. "I always need a lot of convincing about the acceptance of my work," Astaire once said. This should...
...role, Walters describes himself as "a pragmatist tinged with idealism." He favors a policy of "constructive ambiguity" to disarm his opponents, explaining, "I know how unpleasant surprises are to me, and so I'm going to try to make it equally unpleasant for them." He is fond of the canape-and-cocktail aspects of the job. A bachelor, he spends long hours entertaining U.N. diplomats in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers and visiting their delegations around Manhattan. "I believe that in an environment like the U.N.," he says, "you get a lot more with sugar than you do with...