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...stalest jokes and cliches have a short half-life, and evoke a comfortable haze of nostalgia as they decay. The directing also comes a pleasant surprise. While always irritating and oily as an actor. Richard Benjamin turns out to be quite skillful behind the camera. He doesn't overwhelm with individual touches, but he does keep things moving deftly along, and he has had the good sense to let O'Toole follow his own course. My Favorite Year was produced by Mel Brooks' production company and the old hand's influence on some of the more slapstick movements is evident...
...Soviet Union, powerful militarily but shaky in its economy and unsure of Poland and its own Asian provinces, that the moment has come to attack what it assumes to be a soft and irresolute NATO alliance. When their mighty armored thrusts into West Germany fail-just barely-to overwhelm NATO, the Soviets gamble that a nuclear attack will throw the West into panic, and they vaporize Birmingham, England. Twenty-five minutes later the Allies detonate four ICBMS over Minsk. The ghastly three-week war is ended, and the dammed-up anger of its own abused citizens sweeps the Soviet government...
...backdrop is grinning black children. Last week Reagan tried waging diplomacy by camera. White House spokesmen pointedly referred newsmen to how unsmiling the President was in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Shamir. If this was meant to signal a new kind of diplomatic rebuff, it didn't overwhelm the Israelis, who went on bombing Beirut...
...have a better-than-even chance of unseating the ruling government. At immediate risk were the moderate, hereditary regimes of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the gulf. But the Ayatullah Khomeini's vow was even more explosive: to press on to Jerusalem, to liberate the Holy City and overwhelm all enemies of Islam...
...program it. For this, the inexpensive, easy-to-operate personal computer, entirely self-contained and relying on equipment immediately at the student's side, is an ideal instrument-much more "user friendly," as manufacturers like to say, than big machines. Yet even with a handy micro, programming can overwhelm the uninitiated. The programmer and computer must "speak" a common language...