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What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism...
...would do better to choose the second best because it appeals rather than the best because it is dictated. Far too many delights have gone untried because they have come in second in some arbitrary rating system. Given the success of The Best, Voltaire's warning seems more valid than ever: "The best is the enemy of the good...
This was just a pretext of [British Foreign Secretary James] Callaghan's to gain time. On the surface the argument that [Greek Foreign Minister George] Mavros and [Greek Cypriot Acting President Glafcos] Clerides had to consult their governments looked valid. But they had direct telephone lines with their capitals, just like the Turks, and they could have consulted their people by phone. All we wanted was separate geographical zones for the two Cypriot communities. Mavros and Clerides wanted to maintain the status quo. If we had accepted the delay they would have come back with negative replies anyway...
...women were clearly out of order. In a joint letter to friends, they admitted that the ordinations were "irregular," even while contending they were "valid and right." None of the eleven had the required approval of her bishop and diocesan standing committee of clergy and laity. Moreover, the quartet of bishops who ordained them lacked authority on other grounds as well. The Rt. Rev. Robert L. De Witt, 58, the resigned Bishop of Pennsylvania; the Rt. Rev. Edward Randolph Welles II, 67, the retired Bishop of West Missouri; and the Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, 73, the retired bishop...
...they try to find some reasons to explain their supposed longevity," Medvedev told TIME. The result, he said, is "pseudo science" based on largely falsified data. Not one of the 500 people in the Caucasus claiming to be from 120 to 165 years old has been able to produce valid birth records. Neither has any of the superannuated Kashmirians or Ecuadorians...