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...That statement's glaring hyperbole runs through the next 287 pages. The book contains no apparent factual errors, only mind-boggling leaps of imagination, including only evidence that suits his conclusion. Not surprisingly in a 1957 atmosphere still charged with the remnants of McCarthyism, the book caused a considerable stir...
...prayer put in the kitchen of the London mansion occupied by the Vatican's Ambassador to Britain, Swiss-born Archbishop Bruno Heim, 68. The supplicant chef frequently turns out to be Heim himself, who likes to slip an apron over his cassock to whip up sauces or stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing a breach opened with...
...bombs or into intensive research and development of alternatives to oil, like widespread conservation, cogenaration and renewable energy sources? Will propping up the General Zias of the world make us more secure, or improve relations with the Third World? The reason it is so easy for the Soviets to stir up trouble, and to win allies, is because the U.S. defines itself as the keeper of the world order however it happens to exist right now. When the inevitable popular revolutions come, they turn anti-American. Remember Iran? Why must we be saddled with all the losers? As to arming...
...invading Afghanistan, most experts agree, was simply to tighten its control of that rebellious country. The tide of Islamic fervor, which had already shaken Iran, was now threatening Afghanistan. Unless it were checked, might it not also spread across the border into the Soviet Central Asian Republics and stir unrest among their substantial Islamic populations? Thus Soviet leaders probably felt that they had only two options: 1) to allow a Moscow-leaning socialist state on their border to dissolve into chaos and possibly pass into the hands of Muslim fanatics or 2) to move forcefully to take control of events...
...terminal catatonia. The actors are listless. The camera does not move. The lines are separated by silences that would give Harold Pinter pause. One strong whiff of Going in Style, and the audience is transported directly to slumberland. For the next 90 minutes, there is little reason to stir. By telling the story of three elderly men who rob a bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic...