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...FILM is no grim war epic--lest the Tragic muse settle over the events like a vulture, a wonderfully rough comic sense continually jostles it aside, and the two end up coexisting guardedly. Symbolic of the filmmakers' attitude is the scene in the beginning of the film when Cecelia, sitting in church, stares at the horribly gruesome fresco of the torments of hell on the wall--in response to the crosseyed anguish of one of the damned, Cecilia crosses her own eyes in delight...
...writer for the Western Morning News. The labor had been hard, he said, and his back hurt, but the farm breakfasts had been splendid and the rural values sound. He said he came to know the cows well "by their udders. I think being here has restored my sanity." Lest Fleet Street think its clamoring threatened to unhinge him, he added, "Being on the land does help one get a sense of proportion much better than being stuck in the city." Charles is an outdoorsman, and the farm stay was thoroughly in character, but it is also true that...
...members of the Russian émigré community. In London, TIME'S Frank Melville met with Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, a former KGB major. Washington Correspondent Christopher Redman talked with past and present members of U.S. intelligence and found them wary about revealing too much knowledge of KGB operations, lest it tip off Soviet spies to U.S. capabilities. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof probably had the most delicate assignment. "Soviet citizens are usually leery of talking about the KGB," he reports. "But those willing to be interviewed provided insights available nowhere else. One person told me, 'If you walked...
...that something like an interim solution?reduced, equal deployments on both sides with the vague, nonbinding espousal of zero as a long-term goal?might be possible later, but not now. They do not want to give even the hint of an official endorsement before the West German elections, lest the U.S. appear to be leaving Helmut Kohl, a strong public supporter of the zero option, out on a limb...
...Seattle-First National Bank, reported a surprisingly large operating loss of $61.4 million for the fourth quarter, bringing its 1982 deficit to $90.2 million. Just before the stunning announcement, a dozen of the largest U.S. banks, including Wells Fargo, had agreed to make available $1.5 billion in standby credits lest some of Seafirst's large depositors lose confidence and withdraw their money, precipitating a run on the bank...