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...roman a clef, published some four decades ago, about his experiences in Africa when he was engaged by Huston to polish James Agee's script for The African Queen. Eastwood has dared to attempt a faithful impression of the director, his growling drawl, his loose-limbed stride, the arrogant tilt of his head. The result is a stretch for him as an actor, and fun for the audience...
...more practical consideration in the push to establish an Arab peacekeeping force. Moderate Arab leaders, like Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, know well that if the showdown in Saudi Arabia begins to look like a conflict that pits the "imperialist" U.S. against a beleaguered Iraq, Arab sympathy will tilt toward Saddam. An Arab proverb instructs that if a Muslim nation invites a foreigner onto its soil to fight, then all other Islamic nations should turn against the renegade nation. Warns a Syrian official: "The Americans should realize that if they hurt Iraq, it will mobilize all the Arabs around...
...they do so on a scale unjustly obscured by Tilt-a-Whirl and Cinderella's castle. The giant Disney parks in Florida and California consider everyone who greets the public to be a performer; the ranks of honest-to-Goofy singers, dancers and actors reach into the hundreds and arguably thousands, even if ) some sport Mickey Mouse heads. Nashville's much smaller Opryland, which relies more on entertainment to sell itself than any other park, employs 400-plus performers -- comparable with the combined casts of all the musicals currently on Broadway -- in a dozen shows with a cumulative annual audience...
With the high court poised to tilt decisively to the right on several inflammatory issues, a nominee publicly committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion, would provoke an outcry from the liberal forces that derailed Robert Bork's nomination in 1987. But if the President picked a Justice less inclined to overturn Roe, right-to- life activists and conservative Republicans already angered by Bush's retraction of his "no new taxes" pledge would be enraged. Facing these polarized options, the President deftly reduced the risk by selecting a Stealth candidate. Federal Appeals...
Proponents argue that Earth Day 1990 will both challenge individuals and mobilize new constituencies such as minorities, the religious community and organized labor. The event's disciplined chairman and mastermind, San Francisco lawyer Denis Hayes, hopes to saturate the public consciousness and create what he calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold...