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...obligatory superstitious peasant scenes, as well as in the passages where the swells up at the main castle fall to intriguing, one feels he is witnessing a compilation of best-loved scenes from the history of the sword-and-sorcery genre, though Chloe Salaman is a lovely and spirited prin cess of this mythical realm. It must be said that the uninspired stretches throw the film's magical moments into high relief. The final confrontation between Richardson and the rude beast, a confrontation in which Galen finally rises from apprentice to journeyman in the dragon-slaying game, is grippingly...
...names stick. Just ask NBC's Tom Brokaw ("Duncan the Wonderhorse") or the people at ABC News ("Rooney Tunes"). Says ABC News President Roone Arledge: "He loves to make catchy little phrases that are belittling." Adds CBS News President Bill Leonard: "He uses the English language like a sword to punch holes in whatever he feels like punching holes...
Americans in the mid-1970s winced through Watergate, the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. foreign bribery case, corporate indictments for illegal campaign contributions and seemingly endless scandals involving the FBI, CIA or IRS. On the theory that secrecy was the thread linking corruption, and full disclosure was the sword to cut it, Congress between 1974 and 1977 created the Federal Election Commission, broadened the Freedom of Information Act and toughened the ethics and disclosure laws for federal appointees. Corporations were compelled to record and disclose anything that might be construed as a bribe. The FBI and CIA were restricted, especially with respect...
...allegorical tribute to Group 47. But the book is also an imaginative leap, and easily accessible as such even to those unfamiliar with the details of German life in this or the 17th century. Grass whisks himself off to one of the many times in history when the sword seemed mightier than the pen. He watches poets' gather at an obscure village inn, all of them taking risks to get there. Brigands and bands of hungry soldiers terrorize travelers; the local river yields up dead bodies. Ignorant armies have been clashing night and day for nearly 30 years. Food...
...country's new 84-year-old leader. Ayatollah Khomeini, government by decapitation flourished. In the eyes of Kazem, indeed in the eyes of most of the nations of the world, who watched with disbelief as 52 Americans were taken hostage and paraded through the streets of Teheran, the sword of oppression had simply changed hands. The voice of government opposition still could not and would not be heard. As Kazem looked on from his new home in Houston, where he had since married an American to keep from being deported back to Iran, he began to realize that...