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...telling us just what everything means. Despair not, Ever thoughtful Columbia pictures offers film critics a publicity pack complete with Murray and Director Byrum's musings that role well enough Characters, who seem only straight men a women for Murray take on complex even literary dimmensions. "Catherine's character (Isabel) is someone you fall in love with who returns that love but to the extent that it makes you feel miserable," Get it? Seeing the film won't help. Murray might as well have said, "Yes, and there where you see the poor peasants walking along the river is where...
What sets Larry pondering the question of where he and the world are heading is the horror of World War I trench warfare. Mustered out, he rejects a career in the stock market and marriage to Isabel (Catherine Hicks), his bitchy, materialistic fiancée, in order to embrace the exemplary poverty and thoughtfulness of Left Bank Paris in the '20s. Thereafter, a great deal of breathless plotting contrives to keep him in touch both with Isabel and with Sophie (Theresa Russell), another, more sensitive, therefore more self-destructive girl he left behind. It is not merely that...
Written by Economists Isabel Sawhill and John Palmer,* the report is not entirely critical of the Reagan policies. It says that the social safety net for the non-working poor is still largely intact. From its success in reaching goals such as cutting taxes and lowering interest rates, the report adds, "the Reagan Administration may be judged as one of the most effective presidencies in recent history." But the report critically notes that the Administration has attempted "to turn back the social policy clock, in some extreme cases ... to a pre-New Deal time...
Thus most observers regard the dalliance with Isabel as a good move for Alfonsín. "Alfonsín can't lose," explains a senior diplomat in Buenos Aires. "If the unity approach works, he will have six to nine months of discussion rather than combat. If it doesn't work out, he will have an advantage because it could serve to split the opposition even further, and he can blame future failures on the Perónists...
...Isabel, who is expected to return to Madrid early in June, also stands to come out ahead. The Senate last week passed a bill restoring her extensive real estate holdings and her good name. Moreover, she has been accorded the active political role she obviously relishes. Says another senior diplomat: "She can now perceive that she has a historical place in the scheme of things, something beyond her wildest dreams. On the substantive side, she may genuinely feel that she can help out as the self-perceived fixer." Observes an Argentine banker: "From her point of view...