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...trouble with John le Carré's 1983 novel, The Little Drummer Girl, was that it required more than 400 pages of densely detailed writing to lend credence to an improbable plot that a writer less impressed by his own critical repute might have skipped through in about half that length. The trouble with the movie version of this tale is that it is entirely, and rather glumly, preoccupied with that labyrinthine plot. There is no time left in the film for those observations about character, setting and political background that at least gave the original fiction the force...
...were the hit of Milan. Designers sent insufficiently willowy models right back to the agency and ordered up more and longer legs. Almost every show had minis: Karl Lagerfeld, designing the Fendi collection, made them up in a witchy little F print of his own devising that managed to lend the house's ubiquitous initial some charm. Sexy Gianni Versace went straight to the point and crafted brief siren suits. At Complice, Claude Montana did seemingly endless variations on the mini theme in bold red leather. Nor is Milan alone in hiking skirts. Preview releases from Seventh Avenue make...
...latest film, A Soldier's Story, Jewison has stood by his word, creating a thought-provoking though somewhat muddled movie which examines the painful clashes between individuals and cultures. Moreover, his subject-which does not lend itself to an interplanetary plot or elaborate special effects-is no favorite of box-office treasures or Hollywood moguls: racism and discrimination in America...
...what was this? Direct Mail from the Great Beyond? An exhortation exhumed with Jackson's bodily remains? Unfortunately, the truth is not quite so tasteful. Two former members of Jackson's staff saw fit to lend their defunct chief's name and memory to the hard-pressed Gardner, perhaps with the hope of rectifying their unemployment caused by Jackson's untimely demise. Men of former eras might have been deterred by their awe of the dead; but with luck the Senator's spirit was still a true Democrat at heart...
Washington had clearly lost face by not knowing that a marriage was in the making. Its anguish was only increased by the treaty's probable terms. According to some reports, Hassan has promised to lend Libya some 30,000 of his crack troops in the event of another Israeli war. He may also start handing back Libyan dissidents (he is said to have already returned one leading anti-Gaddafi agitator, Omar Meheishi, to almost certain imprisonment). Worst of all, in Washington's eyes, the King's handshake gives Gaddafi, a leader who has openly exported terrorism...