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Bowie?who has undertaken boxing and martial arts instruction to let off steam and claims to sooth nerves and ears listening to Polish and "Chinese Communist music"?is still bedeviled by those old interviews in which he rushed giddily out of the closet. He speaks of them now as the major miscalculation of his career, claiming he was never gay, bisexual, a transvestite or any selection of the above. Says he: "I was so young then. I was experimenting." He may be more at peace now, but no one is suggesting that complete equanimity comes from perfect equilibrium. Thoroughly...
...alive," he quipped, "and would like to go on delivering my speech." After calling for "a true dialogue between the authorities and society," he concluded with a tribute to seven miners who were killed during a confrontation with the police at a nearby mine during the opening days of martial law. Said John Paul solemnly: "Let us remember all the deceased workers, those who were victims of mortal accidents in the mines or in other places, those who lost their lives in the recent tragic events. All of them...
Reporting from Poland under martial law can present difficulties. Access to officials is limited, contacts with citizens are often monitored, and authorities sometimes react strongly to reporters who displease them. Last year officials temporarily lifted the credentials of a New York Times correspondent; in January the government expelled a U.P.I. reporter on charges of obtaining military intelligence and denied a visa to a BBC correspondent to protest statements made in a documentary...
...smell of Malamute in the morning!" With this glad cry, Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) mushes his dog sled through the snows of New England, eager for his climactic battle with an enemy who, like Donald, has surrendered to the fantasy that violent action, backed by deadly skills in the martial arts, is a necessity for survival in America today. Too bad he has to call time out in their gunfight because he brought the wrong bullets with...
Although the Polish government generally, if grudgingly, tolerates the committee, members are under no illusions about their status. They insist, however, on the church's right to undertake charitable activities, even under martial law. Says a volunteer: "It is a legal way of defying the authorities, and we want to show that we can deal in a Christian way with the people running this country...