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...20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record in helping restore the city's financial prosperity after its brush with bankruptcy in the 1970s apparently outweighed criticism that he is insensitive to the city's poor. Koch faces anemic opposition...
...measures, said the official, are consistent with the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement," the quiet diplomacy designed to nudge the South African government toward racial reform. To press that point, it is expected, Reagan will announce that he is sending Ambassador Herman Nickel back to South Africa this week. The Ambassador will carry a letter from Reagan and will be charged with urging reforms on Pretoria. Nickel was recalled to Washington in June after South African troops made an incursion into Botswana in search of antigovernment guerrillas...
...HERMAN'S humor is of a brand all its own. And nowhere is this more evident than in his first feature film. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While this means bad things for those unfamiliar with the young comic's style, this means good news for Pee Wee fans across the country...
...think the movie is mere silliness. But then that's what Pee Wee's humor is all about: childishness. Paul Reubens is not an actor playing Pee Wee, he is Pee Wec. (A few months ago, Reubens dropped his real name and "became" Pee Wee Herman, refusing to answer to his former off stage name...
...nation," Herman Melville said of this country of immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall in love with Charlie Chaplin. Judy Garland sings about a rainbow, and Europeans know it is only a dream away from Kansas. A California child opens the eyes of his extraterrestrial friend to a toy store's worth of American brand names, and E.T. strikes a responsive chord on every continent. For most...