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...disgust. As Jeane Kirkpatrick, the controversial U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., told TIME Correspondent James Wilde: "We need a new departure. We must give more importance to the U.N. and take it more seriously, both in the positive and negative aspects. The U.N. is vital to American interests." The paradox is that as the U.S. strives to prove that point, the uproar is liable to grow louder along the banks of Manhattan's East River. -By George Russell. Reported by Louis Malasz/United Nations and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington
Unprecedented bounty, serious worries about survival: this is the paradox confronting Steffen and thousands of other U.S. farmers. They are, it appears, too good for their own good. Three straight years of bumper crops have created enormous surpluses and pushed prices for the major crops lower than they have been in at least a decade, often below the cost of production. The year's expected harvests of corn (8.3 billion bu.), wheat (2.8 billion bu.) and soybeans (2.3 billion bu.) will be the largest in history, and yet U.S. farm income will be the smallest in real dollars since...
...idea behind the project, Denes says, was to devise "an intrusion of the country into the metropolis, the world's richest real estate. To grow a wheatfield on it, seemingly such a waste of precious space, is to create a powerful paradox: the congestion of the city of competence, sophistication and crime against the open fields and unspoiled farm lands...
Director Taylor Hackford need not have resolved the paradox of loyalty, honor and duty channelled into the overall profession of maiming and mangling, but in a movie with so much introspection afoot, it seems strange that not a single character broods about the fundamental premise of the military...
...fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...