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Surely, this movie, which manages to make the miraculous seem trite and the spiritual seem silly, deserves the full wrath of the Creator whose name it bandies about so much. No doubt, but that this Creator will be destroyed in the box office, that most merciless repository of Man's (Hollywood Man's) Judgment on earth...
...company's comeback is the work of Chairman Sanford Sigoloff, who has made a career of saving ailing firms through tough cost-cutting moves that have won him a nickname taken from the Flash Gordon comic strip: Ming the Merciless. When Sigoloff came to Wickes in 1982, he closed down several unprofitable divisions. After losses in 1982 and 1983 totaling $507 million, the company had net income of $296 million in its last fiscal year. To bankroll the Gulf & Western deal, Wickes has been issuing new stock and securities. About $500 million is in hand, and Sigoloff anticipates no trouble...
...this bad news about Canadians is mercifully tempered by the tale of Linnet Muir, told in the six final stories, which rank among Gallant's best. At 18, Linnet has already been blighted by a cold father and a merciless mother. Battling back with her only weapons, "secrecy and insolence," she manages to make her getaway from parental oppression...
...altogether admirable." This new More is an actor, writing his lines as he goes along. Arrogant in public, he's a victim of debilitating doubt in private. This More is a workahotled. A failed monk, he chooses marriages and a secular career in London. He is a merciless scourge of heretics and, at the same time, is preoccupied with death and tears for his own soul...
...resettlement of many blacks into homelands, including the merciless removal of "black spots" from some areas designated as white, has proved to be one of the most inhumane aspects of apartheid. Some 3.5 million blacks have been uprooted and resettled over the past 20 years, and another 2 million remain to be moved. In reality, the homelands have become an expensive embarrassment. Last year the program cost South Africa about $1.5 billion, or almost 9% of the national budget. But whatever its failings, the creation of black homelands remains essential to public policy because the government knows of no other...