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...details certainly sounded impressive. According to contra leaders, more than 4,000 U.S.-backed rebels crept for days through dense jungle to launch a fierce surprise attack on three mining towns in northeastern Nicaragua. In the hamlet of Siuna, the invaders routed 750 defenders, blew up an airfield and seized enough Soviet-made weapons to supply 1,000 troops. Their biggest coup was the destruction of a Soviet GCI radar unit that formed the heart of Sandinista air defenses for the region. Jubilant rebel leaders called the two- day assault the most successful offensive of the six-year civil...
Like fiddlers who want to conduct and comedians who yearn to play Hamlet, thriller writers sometimes show symptoms of hankering after respectability. John le Carre has handled this problem by surrounding his plots with a Jamesian density of details and implications. Now Len Deighton, known to millions of readers as the author of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, has, temporarily at least, given up suspense altogether...
Throughout the production, Tomarken and Karney convey a wonderful chemistry. Tomarken plays Bennett with just the right combination of effeminate flair and brooding passion. His pensive sighs and pouty fits would make even Hamlet a little envious. Karney's Judd provides comic relief with his caustic wit. At one point Judd deadpans "I don't have to try. I am clever...
...frankly do not understand McGanney's logic when she charges that we forbid reviews to keep our deceptive policies under cover. We stopped reviews to encourage creativity, to prevent such reviews as The Crimson's personally affrontive review of Brad Dalton's "experimental" Hamlet...
...upcoming. On Dec. 8 he or she -- some claim that Spuds is actually a female whose real name is Evie -- will be a guest veejay on MTV and early next year will appear in a supporting role in Robert Downey's new movie Rented Lips. "He wasn't playing Hamlet, but Spuds was perfect on the first take every time," says Film Producer Mort Engelberg. "He didn't ask for overtime, and there was no sexual misconduct on the set." Hollywood, in short, seems at last to be barking up the right tree...