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...film, which lingers too long over the preparations for engagement, contains perhaps too many couriers galloping up with exposition and concludes with a battle that is handled rather distantly and bloodlessly. These flaws, though, are minor compared with the acuity of the film's best characterizations, the vaulting scale of its design and, above all, its old-fashioned belief that history, besides being instructive in itself, can -- and should -- be a great movie subject...
...think Profet is strongly influenced by modern human sex practices: women receiving sperm without getting pregnant. This very new behavior, in the biological time scale, will have to continue for tens of thousands of years before it affects natural selection. Dan Sandberg, M.D. Uppsala, Sweden
...countries, and though he has half a dozen lavish homes in several countries, he says with some justification that he lives in his private Boeing 727, which is outfitted with a bedroom and sophisticated communications gear. Calling Eisenberg an arms dealer does not do justice to the scale and astonishing variety of his operations. He may have handled Israel's military sales to China, but at the same time he was completing hundreds of other deals, bringing investors, manufacturers and markets together in tidy packages and taking a large cut for himself. He has been the key man in coffee...
...Matisse's did, it's hardly an occasion for blame. Miro was a marvelous artist -- some of the time. But he was also a painter with definite limitations, which began to show when, fairly late in his career, he started working on what one thinks of as an American scale. It is hard to bring to mind any of those big late canvases -- a blue field with a few dots on it and a squiggle or two -- that one would willingly swap for one of his fiercely impacted little canvases from the 1920s, like Petri dishes swarming with bizarre...
...defensive technology that diminishes the advantage of offense. A serious, sustained research program is not a bargaining chip and should not be used as one. However, a research program that is driven by good science rather than high-pressure politics would not hold out false hopes for large-scale population defense; and yet it still could pave the way for a grand compromise by inducing the Soviets to agree to significant cuts in offensive weapons in return for reinforcing old agreements that limit the development of defensive systems. Indeed, the Soviets have recently begun exploring ways to restrict...