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When a Roman Catholic theologian is summoned to Rome, he is wise to come prepared with cogent arguments, a respectful mien and, when possible, influential friends. Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 45, arrived in the Eternal City from Brazil with all three, but especially with friends. A leading exponent of liberation theology, a movement that often combines Marxist concepts with calls for social justice, Boff was asked by the Vatican to reply to a notification that his teachings were "considered dangerous," particularly in their appeal for a less authoritarian church. For support, Boff brought along two important Brazilian Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo...
...once did she obviously dissemble, or weasel away from a question. But she did make some wise tactical retreats, giving ground as necessary. For instance, a questioner asked about her nominal positions in various Zaccaro business entities: sometimes she is listed as treasurer, sometimes secretary, sometimes vice president. "It's sloppy, I'll grant you that," Ferraro said. She even managed to be self-deprecating and defiant at the same time. "I probably brought it all on myself," she said, "by promising more [disclosure of Zaccaro's finances] than I was able to deliver ... But I ended up delivering...
Both athletes chose arthroscopy, partly because it offered at least an outside chance of competing in Los Angeles. The decision was wise: both went on to earn gold medals in their events, Benoit by winning the first women's Olympic mara thon and Retton by beating out the top Rumanian and Chinese gymnasts for the all-around championship...
Brave words, if not wise ones. But Henze, a sybaritic socialist with a well-developed taste for capitalist pleasures, has never let politics stand in the way of artistic success. He excoriates the Nazis, the treatment of blacks in the South and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, while overlooking such evils as Stalin's Gulag. Yet the opera's blinkered world view is secondary to its musical and dramatic substance-for the audience and, perhaps, for the composer as well...
...major problem lies in the construction of The Fourth Man. The movie follows a fairly straight narrative line from its beginning and the end, and the audience is wise to what is going on from the beginning, even if the characters pretend they're not. The end does not pull the carpet from underneath the watcher the way a Hitchcock conclusion would; rather, it adds the missing piece to a puzzle-picture we're already more than well familiar with...