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They lay as they had fallen, crumpled and now frozen in death, dust-covered mounds in the flat expanse of the gray-brown desert. There were hundreds of them, Iranian infantrymen who had fought and died. A column of Iraqi tanks, their spotlights flickering through billows of thick dust, churned past the bodies toward the east; the roar of their engines blended into a continuous hum. As outgoing rounds of 130-mm artillery shook the windows of his headquarters nearby, Iraqi Major General Sultan Hashem Ahmed told a group of reporters: "There are no Iranian soldiers on Iraqi territory...
Yekaterina ("Auntie Katya"), a 90-year-old in a faded woolen coat and thick brown head scarf, carrying a bag of apples: "No, dear, my family didn't discuss the death when they came home; they were all very tired, so they just went to bed. Chernenko? Oh, we all have to die. They all die, and yet I live on. I'll always have bread. Why do you ask, dear? Was he a relative of yours...
...Moonlighting re-creates the madcap mood of those films with the help of two ingratiating stars. Cybill Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an assured and ; appealing light comedian. As her partner in crime solving, Bruce Willis is more than her match. With his thick-necked macho charm, Willis brings a Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories are briskly paced and unobtrusive, and Shepherd gets lots of loving close-ups. Moonlighting is a snazzy entry that deserves...
...President's intelligence report, a thick black notebook with gold lettering that is delivered to the Oval Office at 9:30 a.m. every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried...
...this all sounds like pretty horrible stuff out of which to make a light comedy, but Function is--if anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...