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...dreams," but Geldof, 33, adds, "we won't drag on." He vows that Sport Aid will be his last major fund-raising effort. Now, he feels, "I have to concentrate on making a living. I have to remove myself and distance myself and start to think in a musical frame of mind." He and his band, the Boomtown Rats, have just completed a mini-tour of Italy. Geldof will use his share of the proceeds to pay off some accumulated debts and replenish savings depleted by his worldwide drumbeating. "We don't take any administrative costs on Band...
...such matters as school prayer and pornography but also on budget deficits, the need for a strong defense and other issues that many Americans regard as political rather than moral. When Falwell has taken positions on such questions in the past, he has been criticized for appearing to frame them in religious terms. Noting that contributions toward Moral Majority's $7 million annual budget have leveled off in the past year and that the organization's political clout seems diminished, some observers think that Falwell is simply pouring old wine into a new bottle. NEW YORK Mother Teresa's AIDS...
...volcanic gestures of Italian opera. In one scene, Batà sits alone in the town square to confess the origin of his ailment, and a flashback shows the infant Batà in a field at night, his huge eyes transfixed by the harlot moon. No minimalist torpor for the Tavianis--every frame is over the top and on the money...
...narrative frame of Lillian is the day in 1961 when Hellman sat in deathwatch near the bedside of her longtime lover, Novelist Dashiell Hammett. Luce's choice of moment is shrewd. Unlike the sequestered Emily Dickinson, Hellman was one of life's winners, blessed with fame, money, affection and what she seemed to seek most, a measure of power. Her childhood disillusioned her. But whose childhood does not? Her adult life was not marred by more than the normal share of grief. Only the ordeal of Hammett's last illness makes her vulnerable enough for an audience to like, despite...
...deal, it seemed, hinged on the curtailment of Star Wars. When that proved impossible, there was nothing left to do but offer grim handshakes and go home. The original purpose of the meeting--to set a date for a full-scale summit in the U.S. and work out a frame work for an agreement on medium-range missiles that could serve as its centerpiece--was lost in the dust. No deal, no date, no plans for future summits...