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...thing about this film though, is that you don't notice its many flaws until you leave the theatre. The film bullies you in the same way the O'Brien bullies Winston, breaking down your resistance and forcing you to despair. When Winston cracks under the threat of the rat cage and screams "Do to Julia," the actual sound of the cry sends shivers up your spine in a way that mere printed words cannot...
...briefing to a congressional committee in Washington, said that New Delhi had considered a pre-emptive strike on a Pakistani nuclear installation before it was capable of producing nuclear weapons. The proposal had been firmly rejected by Mrs. Gandhi, and Indian intelligence officials, as one remarked, "smelled a rat." After Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by two of her own bodyguards six weeks later, intelligence agencies underwent a major shake-up. When routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with Rajiv and informed him they had evidence against some employees in his own secretariat. He told them...
...singer more than comfortably warm, especially under his collar. Two days later the Washington Post published a long story noting that not only Sinatra but also Entertainers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were in town for the Inauguration, and speculating about a rebirth of the infamous, Sinatra-led Rat Pack of the '60s. Approached for an interview by Barbara Howar of TV's Entertainment Tonight, Sinatra snarled: "You read the Post this afternoon? You're all dead, every one of you. You're all dead...
...says Donald Burr, 43, founder and chairman of People Express, who has done both. Four years ago, when People Express became one of the first new carriers to go into business after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Burr's fledgling venture consisted of little more than one abandoned, rat- infested terminal in Newark and three used Boeing 737s purchased from Lufthansa. Today, People Express is the tenth busiest airline in the U.S., carrying nearly 1 million passengers a month. Some of its fares are one- fourth those of its competitors, but its profits for 1984 will total $23.5 million...
...bank from the Southwest's energy-lending disaster by holding firmly to a highly cautious lending policy: all major loans require unanimous approval from a committee of 14 senior bank officials. BankAmerica, whose profits have been pummeled in the past three years, formed a Retail Action Team, dubbed RAT, to cut back the company's overgrown branch system. The bank plans to close at least 121 of its 1,071 branch offices this year, despite angry complaints from customers...