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...criticized by leaders of both parties. If Reagan fails to forge an agreement over taxes by midsummer, the chance of a bipartisan approach will evaporate in the frenzy of the approaching 1984 campaign, when both cutting spending and raising taxes become political shibboleths. And with it could vanish hopes that the buds beginning to sprout around the country will bloom into a sustained recovery...
...photographing spiral petroglyphs in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, once the center of a flourishing Indian civilization. The carvings had been left by the area's former inhabitants, the Anasazi. For hundreds of years they lived in the canyon, creating astonishing multistoried cliff dwellings, only to vanish mysteriously at the start of the 14th century. Sofaer, visiting the site around the time of the summer solstice, noticed that a beam of sunlight sliced right through one large spiral...
...Panther extravaganza only half-filmed, director Blake Edwards knew he'd be taking a big chance trying to salvage the movie. But Edwards went for it. He overhauled the second half of the original script, doing away with Sellers' Inspector Clouseau by having the bumbling detective's plane mysteriously vanish in mid-mission. He also brought in an inquisitive young French reporter; her search for the missing sleuth leads her to a host of Clouseau's friends, foes, colleagues and relatives. The resulting flashbacks--gleaned largely from unused sequences from the five previous Panther films--compose most of the second...
Avid Russian readers used to strip Soviet bookshops of a new novel by Vasili Aksyonov as if they were stocking up on candles before a storm. A first printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the stores within 48 hours, and any magazine containing an Aksyonov short story, like his celebrated Halfway to the Moon, could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally...
...other performances suffer in general from a lack of definition and weakness of voice. The low quality of singing is particularly distressing when crucial resolutions vanish in timidly presented songs and lyrics disappear under ambitious overlapping of melodies in large company numbers...