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...cool as the Rolling Stones or Elvis Costello? Whether the council will try and get another band if the referendum fails, and whether they will allow student input in that decision, are probably important considerations for many. Because students don't know how the council will react, they don't know how to vote...
...missiles. Governments, he writes, can better negotiate when they have something tangible, not just planned. This is all true. But Eban fails to take into account Russian perceptions of such a move and its past reactions to similar deployments. The Russians were bound to and gave evidence that they react to such a deployment as pushing the nuclear stakes higher and therefore respond with their own deployment. Sovietologists have been predicting such a Soviet reaction since last winter and recent events affirm this...
...bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded, from behind a ground-level sign blocking Zapruder's view...
Streisand first read the Singer story in 1968, the year of her Funny Girl movie debut, and the single-minded passion that she brought to the project encourages skepticism. Like Streisand and the character she plays, Yentl is indeed aggressive, exotic, oversize, polarizing. No one is likely to react indifferently to this one-woman band. But as the long, lush picture gains momentum and confidence, it admits the viewer to a beguiling world where emotions can bubble out of low comedy, where familial friendship and carnal love intersect, where the dead exert their tenacious influence on the living...
WHILE MOST OF THE performances are competent, few rise above the level of mediocrity imposed by lackluster dialogue and listless direction; the actors tend to react individually, rather than together as a dynamic company...