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They are keepers of the keys to the U.S. arsenal of last resort. Inside the briefcase are "sealed authenticators," envelopes containing a variety of alphabetical codes called release messages. A series of a dozen or so code words, like TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER, once transmitted by the President or his constitutionally designated successor through the White House Communications Agency to the Pentagon, would constitute an order to fire some combination of the nation's 9,480 strategic warheads, with a cumulative destructive force equivalent to 3,505 megatons (1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT) at a preselected...
...other; the doubts cannot be dissolved; everyone is guessing. President Reagan, General Jones, the Air Force commander of an ICBM site, the pilot of a B-52, the skipper of a missile-launching sub?they all know what is supposed to happen when the President authorizes TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER; but no one knows what will happen next, or after that...
AFTER 20 YEARS of making feature films, Bernardo Bertolucci should know better. The writer and director of such controversial, often ponderous works as Last Tango in Paris and 1900 attempts, with The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, to return to the earlier sparse style which marked his powerful 1969 film The Spider's Strategem. Unfortunately, Bertolucci's recent film cannot match such earlier efforts, and its attempt to study paradox and ambiguity flounders in a self-conscious plot which even the wonderful lead actor and fine cinematography cannot salvage...
...eggnog is not without its spice or season. Lehrer's best lyrics are feats of compression; works like Masochism Tango ("You can raise welts like nobody else") or When You Are Old and Gray ("Say you'll love and trust me/ For I know you'll disgust me") have retained their piquancy. Surprisingly, it is Lehrer's melodies that show the fewest wrinkles, switching from exuberant marches to minor ballads with a fluency that went unnoticed in his postgraduate period. Gary Pearle and Mary Kyte's galvanic direction aids the songs when it whispers...
...Zigeuner-Capriccio (Gypsy caprice) sounds Bohemian, with good articulation and flashy slides. Mintz knows--or so it is said--what it is like to wake up and forget that he is not in his own bed. On the other hand, the recording of Kreisler's arrangement of the Albeniz Tango is no reason to get the butter. Mintz plays it as oversentimentally as the Glasunow...