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...circles round a high brow garden party, despite the beautiful surrealistic cinematography in which the New England landscapes are made to look like Maxfield Parrish illustrations, despite some truly good performances (Foster is one of the more forthright and appealing young actresses around) the movie falls as flat as stale champagne...
...habit than by a command of history; the press is not in control of history. Getting bored with Beirut? It's not unheard of (if you don't live there). Every few weeks another upheaval; the familiar picture of a crushed Mercedes, a balcony split open like stale cake. One hears that the American people are growing tired of the Middle East as a whole. Too bad. The region matters, it's a lead. Boring or not, Beirut may be the center of the world, the place where everything comes together or apart...
...these things might be true. No matter. The audience will have a good time, maybe the best time they are likely to have all winter. If it happens to be a year when the good old Pudding formula has gone stale--if the dancers can't dance and the plot falls apart after the curtain-raiser--well, the opening night crowd will have a blast just the same. They'll just drink a little more...
Ever since West German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner announced last month that General Günter Kiessling, 58, had been dismissed from the Bundeswehr because of charges of homosexual activity, the case against the four-star general had been crumbling away like stale cake. Initially, Wörner grandly asserted that Kiessling had been mixing with "criminal elements" at seedy gay bars in Cologne for more than a decade and that this had left him open to blackmail. Kiessling, a bachelor, stoutly denied that he was homosexual or that he had ever visited the bars in question. Gradually...
...Angeles Times has twelve campaign reporters; only two of them travel full time with individual candidates, and those two often swap assignments. Times National Editor Norman Miller points out that reporters who remain in the cocoon not only run the risk of getting stale, but are apt to lose perspective; they can become focused on what he calls the "inside baseball" of strategy. Says he: "It does not help a person to make a choice on whom to vote for if we go on about how good an organization someone has in Iowa...