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...supply of postcards and objects carrying the Falklands' motto, "Desire the Right." One storeowner has already sold out a supply of watches and jewelry that would previously have lasted half a year. Meanwhile, Britain announced it would relax the 200-mile "total exclusion zone" imposed at the height of the Falklands crisis. But Britain, still wary of Argentina's intentions, asked that country's military ships and aircraft to stay 150 miles away...
...Church. Born in Cicero, Ill., he attended a Chicago seminary and was a parish priest before going to Rome in 1950 to study canon law. Once there, he started working his way up the Vatican hierarchy by serving as a diplomat. His administrative skill, as well as his commanding height (6 ft. 3 in.) helped him land a job as bodyguard and advance man for Pope Paul...
...have real women recreating the dancers, the absinthe drinker in the foreground would have to be eight feet tall." The posers, who are picked from more than 1,000 applicants at open casting calls, are chosen not only on the basis of looks but because they are the right height to fit a specific tableau...
...Room of One's Own in 1929. It remains the best book about the situation of women, which says much for the perpetual pertinence of art, and little for the mutability of men and social politics. "There is no mark on the wall," she wrote, "to measure the precise height of women," and, in the absolute sense, she is still right. The deepest impact of the women's movement is intangible. Some of feminism's greatest advances are revealed in the everyday auguries of family, home and job; some of its greatest power has come in altering the cadences...
...height of a movie season marked by record-setting box-office successes, TIME's Cinema section this week takes note of one of the most innovative and significant of all the new entries: TRON. A fantasy-thriller about what it might be like to be trapped inside a video game, TRON not only is the first feature film to achieve its special effects largely through the use of computer-assisted imagery and animation, it also gives to the abstract world of computer technology a witty and dramatic visual form...