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...before it, Four Friends omits no fact or artifact from its survey of a decade. Pop songs, love beads, Jack-and-Jackie beachballs, deranged assassins-all are strip-mined for significance. The performers (excepting Reed Birney as a gentle, doomed aristocrat and Natalija Nogulich as Danilo's one stalwart love) display little charm, conviction or screen presence. But the intensity of Tesich's obsessions can ennoble his clichés about love of family, friends and country. And Penn, a poet of domestic sexual tension, stages illuminating vignettes to express what the script or actors cannot: a spasm...
...state." Said Smirnov: "There is government control of the clergy only to the extent that any citizen is under control " But to Western observers familiar with religion in the U.S.S.R., the bureaucratic language of the document rings all too true. Throughout the report council commissioners invariably appear as stalwart defenders against faith, exposing the schemes of conniving clerics who are not above offering a $240 watch or a bottle of brandy as bribes...
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Before a stress fracture sidelined her during the Ivies, Jakovic was a stalwart on the Crimson backline, using her quickness to contain speedy wingers, most notably the Bruin duo of Lisa Ching and Frances Fusco in her best game of the year in the first Brown contest...
Politically, however, the stakes were high. Reagan was out to burnish his public image as a stalwart foe of spendthrift Government. His opponents-this time including not only most of the Democrats but some of the congressional Republicans-sought to escape being labeled "budget busters" though still appearing to defend their constituents against cuts that would hurt the poor and disadvantaged. The outcome looked like a standoff. By the weekend Reagan's phenomenal streak of congressional victories had been broken, and he was prepared to settle for spending cuts well below those he had demanded two months...