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...Lebanon than did the statements that flowed out of Washington last week. Some of those assertions plumbed new depths of contradiction: Secretary of the Navy John Lehman retracted a pronouncement in less than three hours, and at one point an ashen-faced Secretary of State George Shultz appeared to quarrel with a position just voiced by President Reagan. But the essence of the situation was only too clear: after the expenditure of considerably more than $120 million, the deaths of 265 servicemen and the wounding of 134 more, the U.S. had decided to cut its losses in Lebanon. Neither...
...Foley were counting on Quinn to pull the film together. And the film almost gives him a chance to act well. He provokes the football coach (Cliff De Young) to kick him off the team, ending his career as high school football star. Then Rourke returns home only to quarrel with his alcoholic father (Kenneth McMillan) and to be kicked out of the house. Later, when his father dies. Quinn almost has a chance to exhibit sensitivity at the burial. But his performance is plagued by overkill. He acts with such superfluous violence and unprovoked anger that his character fails...
...amateur envoy for his "personal mission of mercy." Any questions about Syrian President Hafez Assad's motives for releasing Goodman or the propriety of Jackson's engaging in foreign negotiations were lost in the fervor of the moment. As Reagan put it, "You don't quarrel with success...
Film Historian Ted Sennett has brought together almost 400 stills, from The Birth of a Nation to E.T., to illustrate his selection of Hollywood's "great" films, Readers may quarrel with some selections in Great Hollywood Movies (Abrams; 304 pages; $49.50) "and wonder why other films were left out, but no one can argue with the wonderful, and often provocative, pictures that Sennett has lovingly collected...
...Kaufman's resounding language suggests. The reigning scholar of copyright law, Melville Nimmer of U.C.L.A. law school, said the "essential element" in the case is that "the underlying material is factual." Paraphrasing of fictional material would still violate copyright laws. Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt also did not quarrel with the decision but added, "The appropriate principles of copyright protection got bent out of shape by the tremendous newsworthiness of the Ford disclosures...