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...Adviser in Washington. In the Cabinet, George Shultz may bow out as Secretary of State at the end of the first term, presenting Reagan with another fateful prag-matist-conservative choice. Leading candidates: Middle East Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, a non-ideologue, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, yet another pal from California days and a reflexive hardliner...
...this is her best work since Rosemary's Baby. Bright as the spangled jacket of a has-been crooner, funny as any Broadway comic could dream of being, appetizing as a pastrami-on-wry sandwich at the Carnegie Deli, Danny Rose is almost impossible not to like. Hey, pal, would...
...expression is from World War II. When Marines in the Pacific said "Sem per fi, Mac, " they frequently meant "Look pal, you 've got to take care of yourself out here...
...Swiss Panorama (Knopf; $50) he used a specially designed remote-control camera suspended from a helicopter to make color pictures that are almost three-dimensional in effect. The pictures, some shot from above 20,000 ft., are breathtaking in clarity and detail; in a shot of the legendary Piz Palü, fresh marks of alpinists' climbing irons are clearly visible. Swiss Panorama ranges from cloud-topped peaks and neatly patterned farmland to well-preserved medieval communities and bustling modern cities like Basel and Zurich. Schulthess has a taste for fierce, melodramatic peaks, but even his photographs cannot stifle...
...them roguishly and says, "My father ta'e me to the movies. I watch the guys like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, I learn how to spe' from those guys. I li'e those guys." To each his own American dream. Tony (Al Pacino) and his pal Manolo (Steven Bauer) have different takes on that vision. Manny has a modest, ranch-house version: "I'd like my own blue jeans with my name written on chicks' asses." Not Tony; he thinks big. "I want what's comin' to me-the world an' everything...