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...peace." So ended President Yitzhak Navon's welcoming speech to Saad Mortada, 57, Egypt's first Ambassador to Israel. A mood of lighthearted camaraderie followed the formal red-carpet ceremony as the two men joked and chatted together in Arabic. Before they parted company, hearty salvos of laughter were echoing through the main hall of Navon's official residence in Jerusalem. Mortada was so besieged with requests for interviews and invitations to dinner that he asked, "Does every new ambassador get this treatment...
...willing to take the announcement as a final statement. I've seen too many statements from Iran made one day and repudiated the next," McHenry said, provoking mild laughter from the audience...
...audience seemed intimidated by the weight of authority and the presence of the Secret Service, but did break out into loud laughter when host Samuel Huntington stated that the purpose of the lecture series was to promote international harmony and peace. Those questioners who were allowed to speak made rather timid objections, but one did manage to question the wisdom of supporting repressive dictatorships in opposing Communism. In his answer, Brzezinski exposed a crucial flaw in his theory: he stated that it does not really matter what happens to the people of Pakistan, as long as the structure of anti...
...quite nutty as Max's institutionalized wife, is left stranded between farce and tragedy. The playwright is inconsistently written as both a pretentious aesthete and an idealized heartthrob; finally his plot strand peters out, and poor Weller disappears without explanation. By then, Allen and Lumet have forsaken both laughter and romance for some muddy philosophizing: Hollywood deal making, it abruptly turns out, is a metaphor for male-female relationships. Maybe so, but it is hard to believe that the creators of Just Tell Me What You Want ever told each other just what movie they wanted to make. -Frank...
...television news community howled?partly in laughter, partly in protest?when Arledge became president of ABC News in June 1977. (He remains president of ABC Sports and is executive producer of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...