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...great balancer, in the middle on almost every case. John Paul Stevens, the most original thinker on the court, is an iconoclastic loner who likes to file separate opinions that challenge old assumptions even when his conclusions coincide with those of his brothers. Byron White, the best pure lawyer on the court, is unpredictably liberal and unpredictably conservative, but meticulously careful about facts and precedent...
Solidarity, meanwhile, must decide what it wants to become now that its existence is firmly established: a trade union or a de facto political party? Radicals in the membership are urging the latter, but Walesa has called for a return to pure unionism. Solidarity's first annual congress next month will seek to resolve these contradictory impulses...
...could say this is a sexy Tarzan film," says Bo Derek, "but there is nothing lewd or obscene about it. It's pure sex, and there's a lot of nudity, but it all appears very natural...
...Mornings on Horseback finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife...
...case, the Secretary believes, the Soviets do not place that much stock in pure talk. Only when we capitalists put our precious money where our mouths are do the Soviets get a message they understand and believe. Thus it is that Haig sees the imminent decisions and action on such issues as the B-1 bomber and the MX missile system as key statements of American foreign policy. After the decisions on military buildup have been firmly made, Haig believes, we may see a new willingness in both Washington and the Kremlin to talk about limiting nuclear weapons...