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...good stuff. Nicolas Roeg casts his wife, the exemplary Theresa Russell, as King Zog of Albania foiling a terrorist plot to the strains of Un Ballo in Maschera. Jean-Luc Godard sets Lully's Armide in a Paris gym. Body builders pump iron; two gorgeous sorceresses dust them off. Murder is in the air, and the kinetic poetry Godard can create from the way a woman's hair falls across her face. Julien Temple's witty episode -- quick gags and endless tracking shots -- plops Rigoletto into California's baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated...
...that seems impossible right now on the West Bank. American Jews should not be cowed and embarrassed by Israel's statehood, but should help it through this time of trouble by promoting a political solution. Palestinians should take this opportunity to clearly state their aims and aspirations, not to pump bleeding heart liberals for a little sympathy...
Federal officials are still trying to work out a successful rescue package for First City. Under a plan announced last September, the FDIC said it would pump $970 million into First City, but only if holders of the bank's bonds agreed to sell their securities for up to 45 cents for every $1 of face value. Noteholders were supposed to exchange 90% of the bonds for cash by March 8. But many of them are demanding a better deal, and when a one-week extension passed last week, only 51% of the securities had been redeemed. Stalling, First City...
With five seconds left in the game, and Villanova trailing by two, Cat senior Mark Plansky took a pass in the left corner, pump faked and then went up for a shot. He was mauled...
...outer office of the mayor of Medellin, a thickset bodyguard cradles a Remington pump shotgun in his arms. A revolver is shoved into the waistband of his trousers, and a two-way radio is recharging in a unit near his feet. Down the hall, only a whistle away, are more armed men. Outside city hall, a uniformed policeman shoulders an Israeli-manufactured Galil automatic rifle as he casts a careful eye on passersby...