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THERE'S AN OLD cinematic recipe for directors of suspense films: Mix quirky but endearing characters. Add love story and dash of intrigue. Garnish with slam-bang conclusion in odd place, i.e., merry-go-round, theater, Mount Rush-more. Alfred Hitchock, the master of such concoctions, entranced audiences with well-developed characters and more than the usual quota of suspense. He involved audiences in his mysteries, by sharing the guilt of the crimes: they knew where the gun was hidden, who was the double...
...Saudis were understandably elated because they had seen the proposed sale as a symbolic test of U.S. commitment to their defense. Saudi sensitivity on the question had been such that when Crown Prince Fahd was asked about congressional opposition, he had angrily exclaimed: "If American and other Western countries slam the door in our face why not buy from the U.S.S.R...
...American response was cautious. Reagan, for example, stressed that the Soviet role in supplying arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador "should be straightened out"-that is, eliminated-before any summit meeting. Still the Administration did not slam the door on a summit, although the President is clearly not interested in an early meeting. Instead it indicated that Reagan would see Brezhnev, but only after long and thorough consultation with U.S. allies. As the President told reporters at an impromptu press conference, "I have pledged to them that we're not going to act on things like this...
...lack of intensity that let Ira James get behind the Crimson defense on an inbounds pass and race down the court for a crowd-pleasing slam dunk to put Brown up, 64-57. That shot dumped the Crimson more than any other...
...concept, Miller insists, is simple:basic basketball. Yet in an era of slam-dunk superstars, his beaver-like discipline is not exactly fashionable. Miller maintains that the passing game requires a player to reverse the order in which he learned to play: "The first thing a kid does when you hand him a basketball is bounce it on the floor. After a while, he starts to throw it at a basket. Last and least, he passes it to another kid. Our thinking is the other way around." Says Forward Lester Conner: "With Ralph, if you get fancy and dribble...