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...employ their expensive arsenal against something, anything. The middle class, all four of them, is variously unaware, unconcerned and unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon and solid Fred Ward), to get their betters organized. They make their living doing odd jobs, bicker laconically, dream of urban glamour, can't imagine how to obtain it. But staring into a graboid's gaping mouth, they're the kind of guys -- resourceful, practical, unflappable -- you want on your side...
...touched down in Vilnius the dignified statesman, expecting to rely on his charm and diplomatic skills to work out a compromise. But when the first cry of Samostoyatelnost! -- independence -- sounded from the Lithuanian crowd, Mikhail Gorbachev rapidly abandoned the strategies of genteel diplomacy and adopted the tactics of a ward politician bent on maintaining his lock on a balking constituency. "Independence?" he shouted above the insistent cries. "Let's have it. At the workplace. In cities. Republics. But together...
...married converts have become priests elsewhere in the West since Pope Pius XII allowed the first such dispensation in 1951.) Although church officials have sought to avoid publicity about the unusual American program, it has been chronicled in a new book, The Pastoral Provisions: Married Catholic Priests (Sheed & Ward; 152 pages; $13.95), by priest-sociologist Joseph H. Fichter of Loyola University in New Orleans...
...Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
...Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...