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Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangerous is the tale of two aristocrats, Valmont and the Countess Juliette, who plot the seduction of several young women including Cecile Volanges and Madame de Tourvel. Cecile has a jovial middle-aged fiance, a source of some amusement as he bumbles about. She also has a young flame, Danceny. Valmont and Juliette each plan to seduce a member of the young couple while Valmont tackles, as an extra challenge, the pure Marianne. Juliette and Valmont are married in Vadim's version, as is Marianne, who has a young daughter, these facts make the levels of jealousy...
...some of the Soviets had other ideas. One of them was the collective's chairman, Vitali Vladimirovich Stengach. A large, ruddy-faced man with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities. Sitting in his huge office and guzzling a glass of the natural mineral water famous in the area, Stengach pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done...
...p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat has recognized Israel's right to exist. The U.S. and Britain chastise him for harboring a Palestinian guerrilla group, some of whose members are leading suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yet Syria's wily President Hafez Assad appeared unruffled and even jovial last week, as he maneuvered through the region's perilous political landscape for three hours in a rare interview with TIME Assistant Managing Editors Karsten Prager and John F. Stacks, Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer and correspondent David S. Jackson. Excerpts...
Finally, all the pressure paid off. A jaunty and jovial Arafat strode into a conference room in the Palais des Nations on Wednesday night (afternoon in Washington) to face 800 reporters. He put on his spectacles and read a statement in English. This time he accepted Resolutions 242 and 338 without coupling them with demands for Palestinian independence. He specifically named the state of Israel as having the right "to exist in peace and security." Most significantly, he declared, "We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism, including individual, group and state terrorism...
Weiss, who produced the film, is a jovial wiseguy, as are his frequent collaborators David Zucker and Jim Abrahams. When I told them I would be reviewing the movie, Zucker, in a facetious attempt to influence my opinion, said, "Really? That's a nice sweater you have on." When Abrahams arrived a few minutes later, I told him the same thing and he retorted, without prompting from Zucker, "Lovely shirt you're wearing...