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...couple of migrant dwarves straight from Middle Earth, a little-used golden sword on loan from King Arthur, a satanic but tender-hearted Evil (Tim Curry) lifted from Goethe, an outdoorsy-type hero borrowed from Edgar Rice Borroughs (Cruise), a couple of white unicorns stolen from the planet of Pern and a fairy queen cloned from Tinkerbell. Now, 'tis true that no one story or author has a copyright on Good and Evil, but it is definitely a tired plot which leaves the viewer expecting Frodo to walk in at any moment...
...exist," says one Western diplomat. "He believes that the U.S. is being very unfair to the Arabs and that it is his duty as standard-bearer of the Arab cause to continually challenge Washington." Like the Ayatullah Khomeini, he sees Washington as the focus of evil on the planet and regards the U.S., not Israel, as the ultimate enemy...
...answer from a man moving fleets and armies, contemplating settlements on the planet Mars, spending a trillion dollars a year. Yet therein may lie an overlooked clue about his leadership. He has never taken power for granted. Never shown arrogance in his position, never preened personally in public, always acted--whether he was right or clearly wrong--in the name of the American people. Reagan does not remove his coat in the Oval Office out of deference to the nation's tradition...
...radar mapping of Venus by two robot Venera probes. Earlier this month the Soviets dazzled the international scientific community with their Vega 1 and Vega 2 inspections of Halley's comet. Each Vega flyby was preceded by a swing past Venus to drop an instrument-laden balloon into the planet's dense atmosphere...
...could tell you about section leaders, and my theory that they are aliens sent from a hostile planet in order to undermine our nation's social fabric, but I won't. The occasional mutants who conduct my sections are nothing compared to the students who attend them...