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...popular movie may have on his candidacy (see following story). But politics aside, the movie's portrayal of Glenn aptly illustrates Kaufman's strategy in adapting Wolfe's book. In one of the author's best sentences, Glenn is described as "a lonely beacon of restraint and self-sacrifice in a squall of car crazies." In the movie, that line is given to Glenn to say, in a sweet and giggly exchange with his wife Annie, just as many of Wolfe's other observations have been converted into eminently playable dialogue. The resulting gain...
...remain ashore, and most important, whether our military effort will intensify or slacken--are still a matter of heated public debate. Numerous faults can be found on the diplomatic level as well. As far as strictly military maneuvers are concerned, however, the United States has so far shown admirable restraint and careful execution. The Marines are clearly still in a defensive and policing mode of operation, even if that defense has broadened to include help for the Lebanese Army. The use of naval gunfire has so far been limited to retaliation against direct shelling of American or Lebanese Army positions...
...York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and, yes, TIME. Is there, then, anti-American bias in a large segment of the American press? Or are the German media being asked to confine their criticism to their own affairs and those of the Soviet bloc? I see no such noble restraint in dealing with West Germany's imperfections on the part of most U.S. newspapers and magazines...
...similar happens again?all legitimate demands that no one expects to be fulfilled. Reagan struck one jarringly inappropriate note by appealing for congressional funding of the MX missile, thus introducing a domestic political controversy into an otherwise carefully balanced speech. But on the whole, his combination of anger and restraint was stirring and statesmanlike...
...Texas Instruments sued ten employees who left to start Compaq Computer, even though the Compaq machine, a portable that works like an IBM Personal Computer, does not use the same operating systems or software as the T.I. machines. Compaq retaliated with a $60 million suit charging Texas Instruments with restraint of trade...