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Approaching the screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's complex novel, one anticipated a worst-case scenario in every sense of the word. The last gloomily adventurous 24 hours of the onetime British consul in Cuernavaca, which begin on the Mexican Day of the Dead (and on the eve of World War II as well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into...
...minds of much of America, including some of its leaders. But anti-imperialism was certainly more firmly anchored in American consciousness by argument than by acts of bravado. As far as the insubordination is concerned--which, at the time, seemed more like race war--the example came from Malcolm X and the Panthers rather than from college students. In the end, we simply do not know why Nixon and Kissinger decided to end the War. But when that history is written, I suspect that our building occupations will find their place in a footnote...
...crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde has a 15-month-old baby; Chambers' wife is expecting her own in July. Not incidentally, the band also has a smashing new album called...
...Malcolm Wallop, one of Reagan's strongest defenders in the Senate, contends the U.S. mishandled the case. He believes it should have filed a countercomplaint in the World Court accusing Nicaragua of exporting revolution to El Salvador...
...months ago, but in the past five weeks it has turned into a subject of sharp controversy within the Reagan Administration. J. Paul McGrath, the Assistant Attorney General for antitrust policy, first vetoed the agreement on the grounds that it violated Justice Department merger guidelines. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige then wrote an article in the New York Times calling McGrath's decision "a world-class mistake." President Reagan strayed into the fray by remarking that the merger would not "reduce competition to the point that it would constitute monopoly...