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...weeks Washington has been buzzing with the notion that negotiations of some kind with the guerrillas and their supporters are the only way of avoiding hopeless involvement in a Central American quagmire. The idea, which was promoted by France and Mexico in 1981, has the backing of a number of other West European and Central American governments. It gained further momentum during Pope John Paul II's recent eight-day trip through the region, during which he issued a call for "dialogue" between the adversaries in El Salvador. In principle everyone, including President Reagan, endorses the idea. But everyone...
That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
Alexander argues persuasively that the failure of Harris' lawyer, Joel Aurnau, to plead "extreme emotional disturbance" was one in a series of wrong decisions that resulted in a hopeless case for the defense. Aurnau declared that he would settle for nothing but acquittal on the ground that the killing had been a "tragic accident." The jury remained unconvinced...
Like a bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...
...film's hero, Hirsch plays Al Manetti, a New York City detective who is in charge of the Selky investigation. Hirsch thoroughly develops a fallible character who must balance his intuitive belief that the search is hopeless with his sympathetic determination to help Susan find her son. Playing off Nelligan's calm exterior Hirsch gradually gains a deep respect and affection for her courageous struggle to keep her son's image alive...