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...West Bank and other occupied territories, the statement appeared to presage an ultimate confrontation between Jerusalem and Washington. The Administration is perplexed by seeming discrepancies between Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon's disclosures about secret new settlements in the West Bank (TIME, Sept. 12) and Dayan's patent denials to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis that there is any change in Israeli policy. Said one Washington official in exasperation: "There is at least the appearance of duplicity here-with Sharon playing the bad cop and Dayan the good cop. There's an undercurrent of feeling around here...
...state that "the blend of sex and male-to-male rivalry can be explosive." What about the explosive violence of the thousands of married men who beat their wives and what about the 1 million children a year who are physically abused by their parents? Homosexuals have no patent on violence...
...would never belong to any club that has me for a member." The other is a neurotic self-indulgence, which expresses itself in fantasy. An element of fantasy has consistently pervaded Allen's films, beginning with the premise that svelte Diane Keaton could ever fall for such a patent loser. Often, the fantasy backfires; but in Annie Hall--as in real life, where Keaton and Allen are living together--fantasy has a way of coming true...
...People Magazine, go see George B. Field and Philip Morrison "Should We Expect External Darkness and Infinite Expansion." Field, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, runs the Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard College Observatory. Besides being a professor at MIT, and a noted astronomer, Morrison used to hold the patent for the nuclear bomb--honest, he worked on the Manhattan Project. They are speaking at the Cambridge Forum, 3 Church...
...Polaroid filed a patent-infringement suit against Kodak's cameras; the two companies are engaged in informal talks that could lead to an out-of-court settlement...