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...sure sign that the shooting would discontinue. Both sides were alternating between war whoops and mutterings of possible conciliation. Neither side was budging on the issue of Argentine withdrawal from the islands. There was talk of an invasion. Only one thing was certain, and that was known at the outset: people will kill each other over anything. -By Roger Rosenblatt
However the crisis is resolved, the Argentines had already achieved much of what they had sought at the outset of their bold and headstrong venture. For once, they were cheering and dying for a common cause. Despite the obvious exaggerations of their propaganda, they had proved that they had greater military capability than many outsiders had given them credit for. Most important, they had forced the world to take them and their claim to the Malvinas seriously. "This war has shown that we can stand up and say we are somebody," said a Buenos Aires businessman. "No one likes wars...
...From the outset Harvard's offense was in high gear. The laxmen knocked in four goals in the first quarter while keeping she men from the land of the split-level house to only one tally...
...Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude, we are touched by Feydeau's comic madness from the outset. Ventroux (Phil Kirby), a French politician, is trying to explain to his wife, Clarisse (Nancy Cotton), that it is indecent for their son to see her wearing only her slip. She doesn't understand what is wrong with this or, for that matter, with her being seen in her nightgown by household servants, peeping-tom neighbors, and even Hochepaix, the mayor of a nearby town. The play's central conflict is caused when Clarisse's ingenuous and disputable logic meets...
...apex of a working-class dreams he is ripe to be cut down. Bertolucci humbles his but is unable to create a tragic hero out of him, for Primo learns nothing, having known all along that he is slightly ridiculous. From his vantage point at the film's outset--living in an expensive villa modeled after the local medieval fortress--he realizes fully that his social status is out of proportion with hsi real needs. Still, no matter how ludicrous his self-image of the little man thrust into power. Primo feels no shame for his materialistic desires until circumstances...