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...latest series of ministerial-level talks had been kept alive only through a frantic bit of "elevator diplomacy" by the tenacious Linowitz, who shuttled between the Egyptian delegation on the fourth floor of the Dan Accadia Hotel in Herzlia and the Israeli delegation on the second floor. But it was not enough. The talks came close to collapse last week over one of five key issues on which Egyptian and Israeli views diverge: security in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.* Egypt has proposed a formula providing for security matters to be shared by the proposed Palestinian council...
...other is an arrested adolescent, a good deal of rather funny dialogue about sex ensues, as does a fair amount of partner switching. It's as if a lot of slightly stoned characters had set out to make an old-fashioned bedroom farce, couldn't manage the frantic pace those works conventionally demand, and then settled for doing their own laid-back thing. The result is a literally offbeat movie that manages to capture the way people who have read one too many (or one too few) paperback sex guides really are talking about - and conducting - the battle...
...frantic fourth quarter rally by the Celtics fell short last night in Philadelphia as the 76er defeated Boston 99-97. Julius Erving led the effort with 28 points as the 76ers take a 2-1 lead in the National Basketball playoff semi-final series...
...matter what the vantage point, coxswains broke the thick silence with frantic exhortations until the boats left earshot, when once again only the wind whistled...
...Class." The wind spins the noise around in circles--without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag Youth Against War and Fascism. "1,2,3,4, We Don't Want Your Fucking War. 5,6,7,8 We Won't Even Registrate." The wind lends a frantic quality to the scene. The public address system, mute at this staging rally, forces organizers to scurry back and forth with bullhorns, trying to line people up. "What's that black flag for?" an unaffiliated student asks another young man. "Anarchy, man." "Oh, Anarchy, yeah, that's cool...