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...postponement of Nicaragua's election. "Nothing is impossible," says one Coordinadora official, who points sout that the Sandinistas agreed recently to reverse a previous descision and extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for candidates to register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked: "It's growing a bit more difficult for us to be enthusiastic about...
...Little Rock. The early scenes of Francine and Mickey's courtship depend too predictably on '60s pop songs for period flavor. But most of the details ring true, from the woefully inadequate bromides offered by elders ("a woman's got to take the bitter with the sweet, you know") to the constant background din created by the children, to the way Mickey childishly brandishes his fists at his cowering wife, a neighborhood bully grown to frightening stature. The Burning Bed makes its case, and a lot more. It is an eloquent and gripping drama, and the best...
...dolce vita? "Well," says Dana, the author's wife of 27 years, "the day he got the MacArthur grant, he went around the house repeating, 'How sweet it is.' " Nearly a year and a half later, Kennedy is still tasting successes. On a European tour he will promote foreign-language editions of his novels. The State University of New York at Albany, where Kennedy holds a professorship, sponsored a weekend of cultural events in his honor. In addition, one of the writer's best-known fans, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, signed a bill granting...
...cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing a move to a more hospitable hostelry. In the end, though, the conductor heard the sweet sounds he had come for: the concert was greeted with thunderous applause...
...remembered my trip to the ice cream store, sweet victory. They put on a front there, too. "Harvard, Columbia? They're both wusses. Oh. You're from Harvard? They are very intellectual schools," said Lorie, as she scooped me a peanut butter and jelly tofutti...