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...believe that any relentless "law of the cycles" exists in relations between our two countries or in international affairs generally. Everything is in human hands, primarily of course in the hands of policymakers...
...herself. Gibbs visited E.R.s in New York City and Washington, where she followed Dr. Michael Bourland and his staff through a grueling tour of duty at George Washington University Medical Center. "I can't imagine a tougher job than working in an emergency room," she says. "The pressure is relentless; the stakes are life itself...
Accordionists are deadening too, though they do not wear earplugs or play deep in the woods. They go deep into dance halls, beer parlors, Communions and bar mitzvahs, inflicting Tico Tico and Hava Nagila with relentless merriment, not to say total disregard for euphony. It is their way of paying homage to their patron, St. Lawrence of Welk, but in fact they only irritate St. Andreas of Fault...
...major source of the pollution is the relentless burning of soft, brown high-sulfur coal, called lignite, which is the basic fuel of the East bloc. On cold winter days in Leipzig, the yellow-brown smog emitted by coal-fired power plants is so thick that drivers are forced to turn on their headlights during the day. In the triangle comprising southern Poland and northern Czechoslovakia, which is covered by a permanent cloud of emissions from factories and power plants, residents complain that the air is so bad that washed clothes turn dirty before they can dry on the line...
...Mike Brennan (Nick Nolte) is a good cop. He is also a murderer and a racist -- but then, in this study of New York's finest, who isn't? Director Sidney Lumet creates an atmosphere of relentless, compelling viciousness, where cops and crooks have the same dirt under their nails -- and on their tongues...