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...shootups and corpses in government territory; with the guerrillas, as Moyers said, "you see what you are shown." At the end of 90 minutes, Moyers owlishly summed up in documentary neutralese where "we Americans are": "It is tricky now to tiptoe across a tightrope carrying the past on one shoulder and fear of our enemies on the other." Viewers, after being subjected to so many pathetic widows, arrogant generals, bombed buses and armed children, might have drawn a much simpler, less judicious conclusion: Why get more deeply involved in such a morass...
...wonderfully imaginative clothes and create lots of different moods. With men you can do perhaps the same thing, but it's still more limited." Trying to work some stretch into those limitations, Ellis' leading men's jacket for fall will be long, narrowing gradually from the shoulder to a nip at the hip and featuring a one-button closing. His women's line will concentrate on "cleanness and wit" and will feature oversize coats and jackets in wool flannel that will remind some observers of the wardrobe a flapper would haul along...
...main challenger to Duarte's Christian Democrats. The candidate who has been so closely associated with violence was himself the victim of an assassination attempt in February. Sometimes D'Aubuisson will take off his shirt to show reporters evidence of the wound on his right shoulder blade...
Next day, on a sound stage got up to resemble a pirate cove on the coast of a Cornwall that never was, Ronstadt is dead on her feet. She leans her head on Smith's shoulder between takes. All the pirates are on hand, and so are the major general's daughters. George Rose, the major general, a veteran Shakespearean actor trained at the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Theater, is never out of character and never needs a retake. Kevin Kline, the pirate king, has a fencing shirt with a decolletage that makes matrons of good reputation...
...spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...