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...mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 49, a notorious far-rightist who had already served seven months for a stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium and issued a peremptory statement: the Cortes was to be abolished forthwith, and "a competent military authority" would arrive within half an hour...
...better and you get worse, but you can never know if it matters. O Crimson, you are future and you are past, and your present is a fleeting spark for us; you are a great friendly whore who takes us for our one-night four-year stand and barely stirs when we depart, for the line outside you door is never-ending...
...prudent but far from memorable beginning for Calvo-Sotelo. A successful engineer-businessman from one of Spain's most prominent political families -the assassination of an uncle in 1936 helped spark the Spanish Civil War-he was most recently Suárez's deputy prime minister for the economy. When Suarez suddenly stepped down last month, Calvo-Sotelo inherited the mandate-and with it a ruling party, the Union of the Democratic Center, that is divided on most major political issues. Moreover, even a united U.C.D. could muster only 165 votes in the 350-seat Cortes, eleven short...
Because the lead actors refuse to spark against each other, East of Eden fails as human drama and even as entertaining melodrama. With any stars, the show was unlikely to have ranked with the best prime-time soaps. With callow Tim and sallow Sam, East of Eden is doomed to scrape Bottoms. -By Richard Corliss
...challenging each person to test his own creativity, these computer games, Buchanon says, embody the ultimate goal of the exhibit. "Part of what we are trying to get across," she says, "is that creativity is not just an aesthetic judgment. It's a spark of originality that is in everyone. We're trying to ignite that spark...