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...tout the heckling of the Secretary of Defense as an attack on the principle of free speech, as the majority has done it its editorial, seems more than a little bit strange. Secretary Weinberger has at his disposal untold millions of dollars that can go toward airing the point of view of the Reagan Administration. Weinberger also has a corps of reporters around him to relay his every thought to the front pages of newspapers, the covers of magazines and the major wire services. The Secretary, in short, has virtually unlimited access to all the major media, a "freedom...
...Sound of Music, based on the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical comedy, satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults.' In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...
...stars and toques, bursting open with emphatic recommendations and indignant dismissals in unprecedented profusion; if they could talk, there would be an argument. The best hotel in Paris? The finest painting in the Prado? The tastiest little trattoria in Trastevere? Guidebooks, those quirky, opinionated and impassioned travelers' aids tout the virtues of everything from a stroll down the Strand to a tour of the catacombs. A sampling of the more comprehensive...
...White House ceremony, the Administration will evidently offer little more than verbal encouragement for reform. Even while praising the commission's work, President Reagan reiterated his belief that "parents, not the Government, have the primary responsibility for the education of their children." (He then went on to tout tuition tax credits, school prayer and the abolition of the Department of Education, subjects unrelated to and conceivably at odds with the findings of the report.) Local and state agencies, however, may be willing to spend more on education. Says Columbia University Education Historian Diane Ravitch: "Polls show that people...
...Captain watches with amusement as some preppie-looking young men buy from a dealer standing three yards away from police. "The police don't want no hassle-just score and split and they won't bother you," he says. He is waiting for his "tout," Chino, who helps the Captain and others buy the purest drugs. Chino arrives, walking sideways like a drunken crab. He wears a green, cowled sweatshirt and a smelly blue coat. "What's good, Chino?" the Captain asks. Chino blinks and stabs the air with a sticky claw of a hand...