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FOOTNOTE: *The crack "Go ahead--make my day" was originally spoken by Eastwood to a gunman he was holding at bay with a .44 Magnum in the 1983 movie Sudden Impact. It reappeared last fall in a parody of the New York Post put together by editors, most of them anti-Reagan, who imagined the President starting a nuclear war by throwing down that dare to the Kremlin. When Reagan was shown last week's Post, which used the same headline on a story about his speech, says an aide, "the President got the biggest boost out of that...
...most details, the Chernenko funeral differed little from the final rites for Brezhnev and Andropov. The crack gray-uniformed honor guards, goose- stepping beside the red and black-bedecked gun carriage, each balancing his rifle on one hand, seemed as coldly perfect as a precision gear wheel put through one more rotation. Portraits of Chernenko bobbed above the crowds in a regular pattern as the cortege made its way into Red Square...
Faced with such resistance, some U.S. corporations have tried to crack the Japanese market, stumbled and pulled out. Says the president of a Massachusetts high-technology company that continues to export to Japan: "In areas where the Japanese feel they are strong, they set up a reasonably level ! playing field. But where they are at a disadvantage, they change the rules...
...Barry keeps the inner lives of the sisters well guarded, by intention: he means to examine the kind of militantly conventional family in which candor is considered bad taste and emotional intimacy is a form of weakness. Whenever a painful truth slips out, these women change the subject or crack a joke...
...Marchand, as the family's self-described cutup, has the gift of making banal observations sound witty. Anne Pitoniak, as the eldest and prissiest, combines dictatorial will with genuine dignity. Peggy Cass is the family entertainer, Elizabeth Franz its happiest housewife and Gisela Caldwell its edgy protofeminist, whose eventual crack-up seems to result from her discontent with women's lot. The most affecting performance comes from Bette Henritze, as a stroke victim whose singsong speech does not obscure a larger tragedy. When she admits, "I'm not very demonstrative," she speaks for the whole family and sets in motion...