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...must have seemed like a coup to the producers. But Timothy, who virtually patented adolescent winsomeness in The Last Picture Show, has yet to mature as an actor. As the stern father, he is all jutting chin and squints and false heartiness; he frets and preens like the jeune premier in a Feydeau farce. To say that Sam Bottoms is not James Dean is to say that a Big Mac is no Chateaubriand. There are no secrets, no demons in Sam's face; there is no beauty...
...premier position, freshman Brad Desaulniers dropped his first college match in three outings. His loss terminates a string of Desaulniers victories which began five years ago when Brad's older brother, Mike, first stepped onto the Hemenway courts in his freshman season...
...early as October 1979, the Algerians were instrumental in setting up an inconclusive meeting between National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Iran's then Premier Mehdi Bazargan. After the hostages were seized by the militant Iranians, the Tehran government asked Algeria to represent its interests in Washington. Thus a certain logic was involved when Iran, at the urging of Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, last November asked Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Yahia to help arrange a hostage deal...
Walesa made one of his periodic trips to Warsaw to meet with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski to discuss not only the issue of the five-day week but also censorship disputes, including the right of Solidarity to publish its own newspaper and of theaters to screen a documentary about the summer strikes. The fact that Jagielski, the regime's top-ranking Deputy Premier, who had personally negotiated the Gdansk accord, had been suddenly called in to replace a lower-ranking official for the talks showed the serious ness of the new labor-government face-off. Walesa and Jagielski were...
...POPE, PREMIER, PRESIDENT by Roland Flamini Macmillan; 227 pages...