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...women must find-new places for themselves and each other. It is a challenge eagerly faced by the five young people in A Weekend Near Madison. Four of them-David (William Mesnik), a psychotherapist; his wife Doe (Robin Groves), a short-story writer; his brother Jim (Randle Mell), a painter; and Jim's former girlfriend Nessa (Mary McDonnell), a singer-shared a giddy faith in revolution while at the University of Wisconsin in the early '70s. When they meet again it is 1979; time and events have tamped down their political ardor. But Nessa has become a radical...
That pell-mell derring-do is not for the courts but for the cameras. It is the climax of a television pilot called Today's FBI. Two Sundays ago the show's first appearance in its weekly time slot outdrew in ratings another durable American institution, Archie Bunker. As the age of antiheroes apparently gives way to a public hankering for heroism, FBI Director William Webster and his beleaguered colleagues are seeking to resume their legendary role. So Webster has given free use of the agency's name and seal to the ABC network and Hollywood Producer...
...process amend scores of existing laws -that extensive analysis will be required to determine just what they contain. Some provisions, though potentially important, escaped national attention during the debate (see box). Moreover, in the Democratic-controlled House, after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable hand-scrawled passages and some outright errors. Said a frustrated House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill: "Nobody knows...
...Japan's pell-mell rush to grow, so much of the nation's wealth has been invested in industry that little has been left over for anything else. Even such basic amenities as sewers and housing remain inadequate by Western standards. Housing space is so cramped that building plots cost up to nine times as much as they do in the U.S. and room occupancy rates are 50% higher...
Domestic Policy. At home, an avalanche of petrodollars is confronting the Saudis with a profound dilemma: how to preserve the country's Islamic identity and conservative values in the face of a headlong, frequently pell-mell rush of development. The men who face this problem are the members of the royal House of Saud, which has ruled the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1932 and which, perhaps like no other dynasty in the world, has turned the running of a country into a family business. All key decision-making positions are held by the royal family which consists...