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...scorned by movie producers for a decade. For Allen, playing a bookie who lets a blacklisted writer use his name, drama is all new, and he claims to be, as usual, nervous. "I can't guarantee the outcome," he says on the set. "I'm going to prove that comedians don't make great actors." The lovable shlemiel of Sleeper and other banana-peel epics is playing love scenes without his usual co-star and onetime roommate Diane Keaton. "We're just very very good friends," insists Allen. "We haven't been, uh, that...
This year, the idea is that with a change in the attitude of alumni, this group will prove to be an effective mechanism for recruiting...
Bayh, who is the ninth Democrat to enter the race for the nomination, said he is running for the Presidency "to prove to those who have lost confidence that government can control those forces that often appear more powerful than government itself...
...American, since nationality is part of one's identity. In his new book, Time Toward Home: The American Experiment as Revelation (Seabury; $9.50), he goes well beyond that. He thinks Americans must accept moral responsibility for their citizenship, and if they do, "America may yet prove to be, as the founders hoped, a blessing and not a curse to the nations of the earth." Neuhaus believes "God has a hand in the American experiment." Such thinking in the past has led to cocksure identification of God's will with whatever the U.S. happened to be doing. But Neuhaus...
Congress seems ready to go even further. Of four proposed toxic-substances bills now being considered, one is strongly backed by a combination of environmentalists and labor leaders. It would force manufacturers to prove that all their products are safe before they are put on the market, and make the Environmental Protection Agency responsible for screening that proof for "unreasonable risk" to human health and the environment. The chemical industry, claiming that such a measure would duplicate existing laws, favors a weaker bill requiring manufacturers to notify the EPA only about products containing compounds that the agency has listed...