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...were other similarities. As in Stalin's last years, Kremlin iconographers labored to hide the ravages of age and disease. His portraits were meticulously airbrushed to darken his gray hair, to erase his wrinkles, to sharpen his jawline. Sound engineers who monitored his broadcasts used electronic magic to mask his slurred speech, possibly the result of a stroke. The disguises fell through when Brezhnev was placed in the harsh glare of cameras that could not be controlled by party discipline. At his meeting with President Carter in Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending...
Allen S. Weiner's piece "Behind the Mask" (Nov.8) attempts, in a dispassionate way, to remind readers that anti-Semitism may motivate some of the criticism of the Israeli government in the wake of this past summer's events...
...absurdity of such argument tends to mask the grievous harm the Arabs nearly succeeded in inflicting upon themselves and the rest of the Third World. Had Israel been excluded from the U.N., top-level officials in Washington--including Secretary of State George P. Shultz--said the United States would have departed as well. Such a move would have destroyed what little legitimacy the world body has left. And because the U.S. funds 25 percent of the U. N. 's budget, worthy projects--like development assistance for the Third World, did to Palestinian refugees and the maintenance of a peace-keeping...
...Websters have passed the months without cracking their mask of endurance and restraint--recently posting a new reward for information on Joan, holding repeated press conferences to keep her case visible. But a footnote to Bonnic's case this week cast her bereaved parents in a slightly different light. After numerous legal battles, Herrin finally began serving an eight to 25-year jail term. Meanwhile, the Garlands initiated civil proceedings, suing their daughter's murderer for $2 million in damages for "emotional anguish" and funeral and medical bills. On Monday, a judge awarded them $40,000 in damages, plus another...
...this movie is its ready movement between the worlds of fantasy and reality. Unexpected things keep happening at such a clip that by the time we visit Alba to find her roller skating around the vast apartment while her lover cuts onions in a snorkel and face mask, we are ready to accept them. Maybe next year 007 will die his hair green and wear army boots...