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...quietly astonishing moments when, with just the touch of hand on neck, the film suggests a growing, reciprocal affection between diva and devotee. It is on these occasions that Beineix's seems a promising movie career indeed-when you can see the young man of flair beginning to unlock the secrets of style. -By Richard Corliss
...comes down here, and there is a back way. Look here." The Arab points to an unmarked entrance on a side street, where an old woman is selling baskets of white and yellow daisies. Behind her is a little door that opens into the bank whenever someone comes to unlock...
...such help arrived, it looked as if the Reagan Administration was going to have to fight a war of its own, this one of the propaganda variety. As the guerrillas certainly knew, their attack came on the eve of a certification procedure by President Reagan that is needed to unlock $26 million in military aid and $40 million in economic assistance for El Salvador in 1982. Concerned over the Central American country's appalling human rights record, one of the worst in the Western Hemisphere, Congress last December decided to attach special conditions to the assistance money. It demanded...
...Cornell in 1973, half of those invited to join turned down the offer. At Duke University in 1968, the student newspaper balked at printing the list of new members. Today everybody is eager to join, partly because undergraduates again think the distinctive gold ΦBK key may help unlock the door to worldly success. Harvard's chapter, which boasts such notable alumni as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Adams, is flourishing. And when, as part of the bicentennial festivities, it recently sponsored a panel discussion on "Literacy and the Search for a Livable Future" at Harvard...
...goals, but they question whether the program will become a real moneymaker. Banks earn very little on the loans in the early years, since their value is rather small. The sponsors, though, hope that banks will learn how to make a profit on the loans and help retired people unlock the wealth stored in their homes...