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There is, however, one good reason to see this movie: it features the single most ridiculous line of dialogue in any film made since King David. Threatening his stepmother that she had better help him in sniffing out his father's killer, Billy warns her that she "will experience grief and sorrow of Biblical proportions" if she doesn't comply. Sorrow of Biblical proportions? All that I can say is that if you venture into a theater showing Blue City sometime during reading period or exams, you too will experience sorrow of Biblical proportions. Promise...
...past three years Pendleton has claimed $188,000 in salary payments for his part-time job, reporting a total of 706 workdays--twice the time claimed by any other current commissioner. If Pendleton does not run afoul of the commission for his views, he may still come to grief over his expenses...
...overheated charges and countercharges threaten to obscure the real stakes, which are unquestionably high. Supporting the overthrow of a foreign government, even a detestable one, is a radical act that has brought the U.S. to grief before. In the case of Nicaragua, it risks prolonging civil war, justifying further internal repression by the regime and heightening tensions all through the region. Yet Western countries have felt compelled in the past to protect their national interests by interfering with foreign governments. Communist regimes do it almost by definition. Unquestionably, the Sandinistas in pursuit of Soviet-style Marxism pose a genuine threat...
...sign. Here and there among the hundreds of black-bordered portraits of the dead man were pictures of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The deceased: Zafer al Masri, 44, the slain mayor of Nablus, who was buried early last week in a highly charged atmosphere of grief and anger...
...numb and disbelieving Swedes gathered last week to stare at the small pool of blood in the snow where their leader had been gunned down, they wept not just in grief at the death of a shrewd and compassionate man, but at their unwelcome entry into the era of political terrorism. As one commentator eloquently observed, "The time of political innocence in Sweden has come...