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...Underneath its veneer of Oriental politesse and indirection, Tanaka's message was remarkably similar. "Not even the United States, with all its might, can unilaterally solve the problems that beset the world today," the Japanese Prime Minister said in a speech to the National Press Club. "Nor should we expect it to do so. These challenges can be met only through global cooperation, and especially through the close collaboration of Japan, the U.S. and Europe." Washington's decision to cut back on exports of soybeans, one of Japan's principal sources of protein, coupled with various other...
...added that some drilling will begin next week to make test holds and to anchor diagonal cables into the rock underneath 17 Quincy Street...
Late night drinkers are going to be hard put to find a place that will see their bout to its finale--most of the bars close at 1 a.m. The Blue Parrot (123 Mt. Auburn St.) and The Idler (right underneath it) are for intimates or loners who like to do their boozing in quiet. Their sangria goes down as smoothly as lemonade and mellows your insides with a particularly warm high. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is a traditional Harvard beer guzzling haunt, but it should be avoided on principle--a waitresses' union protested the restaurant's miserable...
Murdoch love stories are like wild minuets: all decorum on the surface, barbaric ecstasies underneath. The magical music starts, and partners, to their own amazement, find themselves in one another's entranced arms. Just as suddenly the music stops, the trance is over. Then, just as suddenly, there are second partners all round. Before Bradley's pen can reach paper, he falls in love with Arnold's wife and, immediately after, with Arnold's 19-year-old daughter Julian...
...mythic figure here, and he gives his mythology the distance it needs to appear large. He makes this backwoodsman a regional folk hero, but at the same time he shows, from a distance, the conditions that forced the man to leave a large family in need of a father. Underneath the surface dignity of a Paul Bunyan figure we see the desperate position of an impoverished man. The irony of this situation depends on the objective and unemotional tone the film has maintained up to this point. If we approached too close to Poulin, his mythical aspects would soon dissolve...