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...into such a rattletrap that its gruffest champions acknowledge design flaws. More than ever, the Secretariat appears to be a papermaking machine, the General Assembly an unwieldy debating society, and the mishmash of agencies spread around the globe a swamp into which good intentions can sink with barely a trace. Above all, the paramount U.N. duty of keeping the peace is in disgrace. All those recent ambitions of using the Security Council as the vehicle of a post-cold war new world order, with the Permanent Five members exercising a broad mandate from sympathetic countries to deter war, have proved...
...Travolta is unimpressed by his "comeback." "It was last year's story, and prior to that it was a story in '89, and prior to that it was a story in '83, and prior to that it was a story in '80," he says, no trace of bitterness in his tone. "I've never quite figured out why I'm the comeback kid when another actor might just have a normal career of movies that work and don't work...
Eight million dollars later, Evans has bought a new house in London and temporarily abandoned his film career. (Eric Roth, the screenwriter of Forrest Gump, will write the movie adaptation of his book.) Next year Evans will start a second novel, yet there's still a trace of resentment at the drubbing his first one took from reviewers. "The money," he says, "is blinding critics to the story." But apparently not readers...
Though Faithfull moved quickly through the first act, spending little time to chat with the audience and even less with the piano player, she whipped through the second even faster, showing no trace of her first act elegance. She was the trademark rock and roll queen, roaring along with funky, bluesy cords. Her "Sister Morphine" and "Night Nurse" were filled with enough anxiety to send shivers down the spine...
...ideal safe target -- an apparent madman leading a cult that had armed itself with vast quantities of weapons. While it was the FBI that directed the final assault in which 81 people died, it was the ATF that targeted the compound in the first place. Says Kubicki, without a trace of irony: "Waco was a need to look pretty...