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SUCH GAPS DISTRACT from what is otherwise an overwhelming flood of color and emotion. Streep, Kline and MacNicol, all marvels of casting, create a triangle of almost staggering chemistry. While the abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...
...main problem, however, lies in the script, which equivocates between a light piece and a serious drama about love, friendship, careers, etc. The abrupt oscillations leave Reynolds and Hawn stranded somewhere in between, rather confused and half-hearted...
...EDWARD M. KENNEDY '54's abrupt exit from the 1984 presidential sweepstakes provides a welcome opportunity for the Democratic Party and its White House aspirants Free from the looming Kennedy shadow, the Democrats can now think creatively about their agenda for 1984 and beyond...
...changes had been rumored for months, but the timing came as a surprise. In a high-level shakeup, the Chinese government announced last week that Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Defense Minister Geng Biao had been replaced. Huang's fall seemed especially abrupt. He had just returned from the Soviet Union, where he had headed the Chinese delegation to Leonid Brezhnev's funeral. He had also held talks in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and delivered a warm expression of support for an improvement in relations between Peking and Moscow...
...statements. J.F.K. took a model of the warship U.S.S. Constitution, which was launched in 1797, to try to drive home the point that in previous centuries warfare touched few people while today it could obliterate whole societies. Kennedy found himself studying Khrushchev's clothes, his pudgy hands, his abrupt movements, his moments of insecurity followed by explosive laughter. Khrushchev, 67, bragged that the U.S.S.R. was a young nation. Kennedy, 44, told him to look across the table if he wanted to see youth...