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...lines snaking around 1,323 movie theaters this summer are long and eager; faces of every hue and age glow with anticipation. Outside Los Angeles' Cinerama Dome theater, a young woman on crutches stands patiently for 90 minutes, waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard...
...vision carries an unmistakably romantic hue; it conjures up an image of a time when there were only men and the frontier, when people's ambitions awaited realization on a new and untainted continent. It recalls that long period of history--some say it has yet to end--when America meant the land of dreams for millions here and abroad. The means toward the fulfillment of this vision. Reagan and his followers contend, also he in a return to history in a return to the limited governments of the past...
From the cameo-smoke Maine Coon to the lavender-silver . Oriental Shorthair, there are approximately 50 hue and pattern variations of fur among the 33 breeds recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association. But differences other than the decorative are important to prospective owners. Personality, price, size and even voice guide selection. The following short alphabetical catalogue of standard and exotic breeds demonstrates the spectrum...
...entry for the Viet Nam memorial is a loser. The proposed monument may satisfy the needs of the Washington Mall but it fails to impart what the war meant to those who fought it. In 1968 newsmagazines printed a photo of a U.S. army tank carrying soldiers wounded in Hue during the Tet offensive. That picture says more about the pain and sacrifice Americans suffered than the proposed "hole in the ground...
...rant. Op-Ed pages give others a voice. Papers that don't want to make waves rent their opinions from elsewhere and are careful to choose columnists across a spectrum of views. Even highly opinionated columnists are diminished in impact when they become simply another carefully chosen hue on a color wheel of opinion. Editorials, particularly on chain-owned newspapers, are apt to be blandly in favor of worthy causes and prudently evasive on issues that rile and divide the city...