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...plans for blockading Cuba to prevent the shipment of Soviet arms from there to Nicaragua and to rebels in El Salvador. He was ordered by the White House to tone down the bellicose talk, and through most of 1982 the region got a relatively low policy priority. But last whiter Clark, by then transferred to the National Security Adviser's post, began moving to bring Central America back to front and center among Administration concerns. He formed an unlikely alliance with Kirkpatrick, an academic intellectual who is his temperamental opposite but often supplies a detailed rationale for positions that Clark...
Even Tootsie 's director, Sydney Pollack, who was competing against Spielberg, voiced misgivings about this year's snub. "The entire world has endorsed everything Steven has ever done, and the academy ignored it," he said. "Probably Steven's hair must get whiter before he can win." In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Spielberg openly expressed his disappointment: "I've been around long enough to know that peopie who deserve Oscars don't always win them. The tendency is for important films to win over popcorn entertainment. History is more weighty than popcorn...
...laser-beam stare and the brightest, most intimidating smile since Sissy Spacek's identify her as a spirit of the '60s. For the others, life is more complicated, the vision more blurred. Doe even daydreams about returning to Manhattan, "where the radiators hiss in whiter and I never see the horizon...
...Mason's chorus of legal underlings, who smirk absurdly whenever he cooks up one of his nasty stratagems. What we are left to admire is fine, dark photography of the brown, guilt-stained marble in the gut of a Boston courthouse, and of Boston slush turning blue in whiter twilight; Warden's humane old counselor; and Newman. His voice has the breathy rasp of a drinker, his walk the uncertainty of a strong man going down. We see him playing pinball in a darkened bar, his shirt clean and his tie carefully knotted; we see him tenderly embracing...
...thumb or punctured cheekbone, Bird naturally replies: "Broke." Long, loose-limbed and 25, he shambles when he walks. His hair is as ruly as alfalfa and his complexion as adolescent as measles. From top to bottom, a distance measured to be 6 ft. 9 in., Bird could not be whiter if he were a professional blood donor. His yellow mustache suggests a gulp of buttermilk...