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...prevent a replay of the surge in sympathy for North, Biden has ordered that the table for the committee members be placed at the same level as that of the witness. In the Iran-contra hearings, where the congressional members sat on a dais, the television cameras made it seem that they were lecturing and hectoring the witnesses from on high...
...neighborhood video arcade -- to play Contra. For 25 cents players can pretend to shoot their way through treacherous jungles without risking their lives or getting caught up in a covert operation. Since Contra's introduction in the spring, it has climbed to No. 6 on the chart compiled by Replay, a prominent video magazine, of the most popular arcade games...
...sure no one left the building clandestinely. In Tehran, Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami announced that the French embassy had been cordoned off and that some of its officials would be arrested for spying. His threat quickly raised fears that the French diplomats might be seized in an ugly replay of the U.S. embassy hostage nightmare of 1979-81. Warned Christian Bourguet, a French lawyer who helps represent the Iranian government in Paris: "The risk now is that the crowds in Iran might do something like what happened to the Americans. That is to say, a veritable invasion...
Smith's dramatic day in court last October superficially seemed like a replay of history. Examined more closely, it was a measure of how far the nation has progressed toward racial equality since 1954 -- and the difficult distance it still has to travel. While the constitutional battle fought by Oliver Brown raised the stark issue of legalized segregation, the concerns addressed by his daughter involved the ambiguous notion of "racial balance" in mixed schools and the lagging performance of some black pupils. Confronting this complex problem, both blacks and whites are split on whether more racial balance will help poor...
...singe the ear. Kubrick's majestic camera tracks across the barracks, it ascends obstacle courses, it glides past the soldiers, then abruptly cuts to close-ups, to study their pain head on. Their faces are fists clenched in rage and fear; they know that farce is about to replay itself as tragedy. The Marines never quite recover from the inevitable explosion. The film never quite survives its bravura beginning...