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...lives of Norman Thayer Jr. and his wife Ethel unfold, it becomes apparent that they have been spared none of the vicissitudes of aging except poverty. He is a retired professor, and there is obviously good breeding and a bit of money in their backgrounds. But the isolation of old age is upon them. No close friends are left on the pond; their only child Chelsea has been estranged from her father since childhood and now almost never comes home. Divorced, childless, she is living the worrisome ad hoc life of the fortyish woman who is still trying to find...
When the fully grown Napoleon reappears as a young army officer at the Club des Cordeliers, a center of radical activity during the early days of the Franch Revolution it is obvious he has begun to unfold internally. Bonaparte, played by Albert Dieudonne, exudes power as he slowly hitches up his shoulders. When he stares into the camera he peers out of dark eyes set so deeply they look like smouldering fires at the ends of two parallel tunnels. Though runty and still obscure, as Gance reiterates over and over, this is the Napoleon of the Eroica...
Amid the screams and shouts of the terrified crowd, Abu Ghazala radioed a military facility near by for a helicopter to pick up the stricken President. It arrived three or four minutes later in an area behind the reviewing stand. Jehan Sadat, who had watched the assault unfold from her box, tried to rush to her husband's side, but was pushed down forcefully by her security guard. She finally reached Sadat's side as he was lifted on a stretcher into the helicopter for the 20-minute flight to Maadi Military Hospital, south of Cairo, where the deposed Shah...
Leading European electric companies reportedly paid as much as $140 million in payoffs and kickbacks to win a share of the business in the construction of the $10 billion Itaipu Dam that is being built jointly by Brazil and Paraguay. Reports a U.S. business executive who watched the bidding unfold: "The European managers had unlimited authority. They paid cash into half a dozen Swiss bank accounts, and the money trickled down...
...matter how Israeli internal politics and the diplomatic drama in the region unfold, the U.S. cannot escape a central, active role as a mediator in the Middle East. The U.S. is the only superpower that has any influence at all with Israel and Egypt, even as it struggles to maintain the trust of all the other moderate Arab states. That trust would be important to the U.S. even if oil were not involved. Despite its vital interests in the Middle East, the U.S. should resist the temptation...