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...Isabel Norby Whidbey Island, Wash...
...Doris Kearns emerged with blotted copybooks, though for different reasons. Attempts to create new heroes failed miserably, despite heroic efforts in the cases of Ruben "Hurricane" Carter and Joey "Kid Blast" Gallo. And some shady characters weathered the year better than might be expected. Idi Amin, Isabel Peron, Indira Gandhi, and Stephen S.J. Hall all cling tenaciously to office...
...Pierre Leaud for one film, at least, is triumphantly vindicated. Leaud is a wonderful actor in some respects, but he is sui generis; one could no more imagine him in a role in this movie than Woody Allen could have taken a part in, say, Gone With the Wind. Isabel Adjani conveys all the levels of Adele's emotional life, though I suspect that the film might have been more effective if she looked older, more like the thirty she is supposed to be. Adjani manages to epitomize everything French--to be headstrong, passionate, egoistical, elegant, and sophisticated...
Concerned politicians in Argentina would like Isabel to step down, passing the presidential baton to the man next in line constitutionally, Senate Leader Italo Luder. Mrs. Perón's tenacity-at this point her only obvious political virtue-seems hardly to allow for such a solution. More realistically, some favor a brief coup by the military that would forcibly put Isabel on a plane to Spain and then turn the administration over to Luder. A number of younger plotters within the army would like to see the military suspend both the constitution and elections and rule the country...
General Videla's refusal to seize last week's opportunities to evict Isabel suggests that the military does not plan early action against her. Yet as election time draws nearer, there will be less and less popular support for any attempted coup. As a people, Argentines seem to want to wait out the crisis instead of facing it, as they have before. The departure of Isabel Perón would probably not change that mood, but more and more Argentines are convinced that it must come-in weeks if not days-if the nation is to preserve...