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...news of Wyszynski's death threw the whole nation into mourning, including, at least publicly, the leaders of the repressive Marxist regime that had once tried to gag him. Even the government press praised the fallen Cardinal as a "great patriot." While thousands of mourners filed past Wyszynski's flower-covered casket in Warsaw's St. Joseph's Church, Pope John Paul II, the Cardinal's countryman and longtime protege, sent a telegram to the Polish people from his Rome hospital bed, saying that he shared in their "pain and prayer...
That conflict begins simply: Matt wants Sally to come away with him, and Sally wants Matt to leave alone. But as Wilson's smoothly polished conversational writing advances, with plenty of one-liners and an occasional sight gag. Talley's Folly turns from a straightforward romantic sit-com into a much more sensitive character evocation. Like a stripped-down Ibsen drama, it forces its two characters to excavate the most airless tunnels of their memories...
That represents the movie's bow to realism. Its comic spirit is exercised mainly through repeated shots of Field running awkwardly down roads and railroad tracks in heels of perilous height. The variant on this gag is to have something or someone upend her in order to show her tight skirts stretching across her admittedly adorable bottom...
...Super-Saver had a key-making machine and computerized check-out. It sold everything from its own brand of moth balls to picnic tables, from gag mugs to ratchet sets. A sign in the window warned customers all summer that Coke and Super-Saver aspirin were on sale only until the end of the week...
...gag has a point. Rarely has a new Secretary of State moved so swiftly to take control of foreign policy as Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 56-former White House Chief of Staff in the darkest days of Watergate, former NATO commander, soldier-bureaucrat-diplomat whose self-assurance is matched only by his iron will...