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That's the way the film goes, not even momentarily credible, and not really funny, but expert and agreeable. Everything is first-class, starting with the imaginative titles, which show old toy autos and motorcycles scuttling about in front of a photomural of Manhattan...
...tenant in the Roseland St. building, David Sauk, called the amendment "a chance to tell Sears, Harvard, and the other giants that we're not going to let them toy with our city any more...
Assad and his colleagues argue that Arabs, despite their concern over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, must remember that the Israelis are their real enemies. Says Information Minister Ahmad Iskandar Ahmad: "Our battle is here, not in Kabul. We have no desire to be a toy in the American game of trying to use the Islamic resurgence against the Soviet Union...
Their latest toy is an artificial eye. Though McMahon and Greene are just starting to apply biomechanics to myopia, its potentials alone signify a major advance. The field has long been what Greene calls a "thicket of controversy." No study has conclusively settled the origins of myopia, nor how much heredity or eye-strain is to blame. "Myopia has been associated with everthing from pregnancy to tooth decay," Greene says. Researchers agree only that myopia is the abnormal bulging of the back of the eye or "posterior sclera," usually around the gap for the optic nerve...
...effect is that of watching a campaign that a MacArthur or a Rommel might have mounted with toy soldiers. The stakes are not high. The people are not emotionally engaging. And such pin-flares of love as do appear seem to have been struck from a wet match. Obsessed as Pinter is by rooms, the drawing room seems to make him a trifle uneasy. Betrayal is a kind of bittersweet Noël Coward comedy in which the people are brittle, and more laconic than witty...