Word: respectfully
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...liberation" has long since been discredited and abandoned. Administration officials now speak more blandly of "differentiation" between East bloc countries. The aim, like that of every Administration since Lyndon Johnson's, is simply to encourage pluralism in the region by rewarding countries that demonstrate independence from Moscow and respect for individual rights...
...Oscars." For his part, Sheinberg sounds resigned. As he sees it, Gilliam is not the underdog of Brazil but the terrorist. "I personally wouldn't work with Mr. Gilliam again," he says. "But it has nothing to do with his talents as a director. I don't respect his talent as a human being." Cheer up, Sid. A terrific movie has escaped the asylum without a lobotomy. The good guys, the few directors itching to make films away from the assembly line, won one for a change. Universal has an award-winning picture. Think of yourself as Santa...
Alfonsin's Radical Party made a strong showing in congressional elections last month, an apparent sign that the public approves of the President's performance. But it is still too early for Alfonsin to declare a total victory in his campaign to restore international respect for Argentina. He has promised union leaders a still undetermined wage increase early next year to make up for lost purchasing power. Businessmen are clamoring for similar price relief. The trials next year of the 300 lower-ranking officers accused of crimes in the dirty war--and a separate trial, now under way, of Galtieri...
...power and Guatemala improves its human-rights record. U.S. officials termed the balloting "fair and honest," but warned that they will closely monitor Cerezo's progress in reversing a legacy of government violence against civilians. In 1977 Guatemalan officials rejected U.S. military assistance because it was conditioned on respect for human rights...
...faces. There is Steven Spielberg the Good: he directs terrific pictures with sentiment and smarts. There is Steven the Strong: he godfathers Spielberg-style films that soar (Back to the Future) more often than they flop (Young Sherlock Holmes). But from the geriatric elite of Hollywood, Spielberg got no respect--no Oscars, that is. So here comes Steven the Nice, with his first "respectable" motion picture, an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. It bears the same relation to his more personal films that The 1986 Alice Walker Calendar, now on sale in bookstores, bears...