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...process begins again this week as klieg lights illuminate the solemn faces of 15 Congressmen and eleven Senators seated on a two-tiered dais draped in burgundy bunting, at the opening of a four-month public exploration of the Iran-contra affair. This is the same Senate Caucus Room where television cameras revealed Senator Joseph McCarthy as a snarling bully. It is where Richard Nixon's closest aides told lies in a vain effort to support the President's Watergate crimes...
Scattered applause rippled through Peking's Great Hall of the People last week as the solemn figure in the gray business suit nervously took a seat at the podium. The surprise arrival was none other than the recently disgraced Hu Yaobang, 71, who was purged in January as Communist Party chief and heir apparent to Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Hu's unexpected reappearance at the annual National People's Congress, China's largest policymaking body, marked the latest twist in the protracted power struggle that has shaken the country in recent months and threatened Deng's sweeping economic reforms. Said...
...million West Germans watched, a solemn Ayatullah Khomeini opened his arms to address a crowd of the faithful. The aged cleric was met by a hearty * round of . . . panties and bras tossed his way by impassioned women admirers. The 14-second TV skit, part of a popular satirical review, irked at least one viewer: Mohammed Javad Salari, Iran's ambassador to Bonn, who denounced the spoof as "insulting." Within days, Tehran had expelled two West German diplomats, closed down its consulates in West Germany for 24 hours and demanded an apology from the Bonn government...
...into the air to admire its grace of flight. Not anymore. The pressures of market hype, acting on curators who do not wish to seem stuffy, have made pseudo events like this common -- even if the brevity of the artist's career fills his curriculum vitae with solemn entries like "1960: Receives from a family friend The Natural Way to Draw, an artist's handbook...
...nuclear issue. In the first moments, Michael Trent is approached by a very wealthy mystery man named Philip Stone (Jeremy Geidt), who has devised a brief dramatic outline concerning nuclear war. He offers Trent a huge commission to base a play upon it. With stern eyes and a solemn bearing, Geidt is wonderfully menacing as he compels the confused playwright to take on the task. As Trent, Howard displays a suitably messy mixture of opportunism, hesitation, and curiosity...