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...despite his misdeeds, Pixote remains an ambiguous character. With his older friends he is loyal, even loving. His eyes widen in horror when he murders, and he clearly suffers with his victims. He hardly possesses the strength to pull a trigger, but he kills senselessly. Not even an adolescent, he displays the weariness of a 60-year-old. Not since The Tin Drum has there been so unchildlike a child in film...
...championship consists of 18 races in each division over the two days. At the end of the first day, Sebok and Stelling had opened up a nine point lead over the tough Boston University team, and they came back the next morning to widen the gap to 24 points and eventually take first place among the ten competing colleges...
...month freeze on the prices of most services and a three-month ban on price hikes for such staples as milk, sugar and bread. Manufacturers were urged to hold price increases to 8% next year (vs. the current inflation rate of 14%), and importers were ordered not to widen then-profit margins. To show that it, too, could cut back, the government announced that it was postponing $2.6 billion of budgeted spending. One of Mitterrand's aims was to help persuade unions to curb their wage demands...
...American. Papandreou once favored Greek withdrawal from NATO; now he says the step should not be taken until Greece can defend itself, a long-term prospect, at best. He sees Turkey, his country's traditional rival, as the main threat, not the Soviet Union. His election would probably widen the split between Greece and Turkey, and thus further weaken NATO'S southern flank. Papandreou used to demand that the U.S. abandon its four bases in Greece* now he would allow them to remain if Greece could close them at will. Instead of insisting that Greece...
After Larson's lofting centering pass came down just under the crossbar at 24:55 to widen Harvard's lead to six, senior Ellen Jakovic tallied her first goal of the season to up the margin to seven. Taking a feed from sub Becky Gaghen at 35:30, the fullback-turned-wing found the upper righthand corner of the goal...