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...notes sounding through the fiscal debate is a sort of muffled cry for vengeance. The amendment will be a terrible swift sword, a judgment at last. It will impose discipline upon a nation that has felt itself losing control in a thousand ways, control not only of its money but its morals and its neighborhoods and its place in the world. The balanced-budget amendment is a metaphorical gesture with meanings that transcend the fiscal...
...control of a speedboat that killed two bystanders. The bulk of Pastorini's talents will no doubt be strained to the utmost, along with his pectorals, by his role in Voyagers!, a man-lost-in-time rehash. It will require him to look mean and wield a big sword. Is it possible to typecast an actor so early in his career...
...spring of Barbarosa's plot is an endless battle between the outlaw and a Mexican family he married into decades ago. There is a blood feud in The Challenge, too, as bloody as it is feudal. Two swords have been in an old Japanese family for six centuries. Now, in modern Kyoto, two brothers fight to the death for possession of those swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune...
...Begin aide. "But he's absolutely determined that the result of this operation, having cost so much blood, must be the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut." During a military ceremony on Thursday, Sharon, too, adopted a more militant posture. Said he: "We have not returned the sword to the sheath and will not do so until the last of the terrorists has left Beirut...
Still, Coe's epilogue is affecting, with Hal all alone, facing front. He plants his sword firmly in the ground, makes the sign of the cross, picks up his weapon, and determinedly and sedately walks off upstage--a man who-unlike his father, has learned from intentionally mixing with all strata of society and is well along in the process of equipping himself for his destiny as the model hero-king, Henry...