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...that the end of the astonishments visited upon him while using some vacation time to investigate the murder of his best old friend. In Beverly Hills, in addition to your Miranda rights, you are apparently entitled to be addressed as "sir" until you are proved guilty and to be interrogated by a policeman wearing a scrupulously buttoned three-piece suit. It comes as a relief to Axel when a questioner gives him a sneak punch in the gut. He takes it as a signal that the traditional basics of police work have not been entirely forgotten among the boutiques...
...European civilization simply makes no sense without its spiritual spine, the Bible. So say British Critic Bruce Bernard and Art Historian Sir Lawrence Gowing in The Bible and Its Painters (Macmillan; 300 pages; $24.95), an opinionated and amply illustrated survey of biblical themes in more than 200 paintings produced over six centuries. Rembrandt is, in Gowing's words, "the hero of this book" because he surpassed all artists in getting to the heart of the biblical vision: his works in this volume reach from the famous portrayal of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus...
...this was the year in which Ronald Reagan was re-elected to the White House, but those with a broader historical perspective have other things to commemorate. Like the 400th anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh's first colony in the New World, the 300th anniversary of the completion of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the 200th anniversary of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, the 100th anniversary of the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 50th anniversary of Muzak. Muzak? Wouldn't that be like celebrating the first broadcast singing commercial...
...alone after all. Britain gave notice last week that it will leave the Paris-based organization at the end of 1985 if certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would set standards for international...
Opposing Blaize's New National Party are the leftist Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement and the Grenada United Labor Party led by Sir Eric Gairy, winner of seven of the eight elections in Grenada's history...