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...help and as urgent as the dream of a better future. It would be nice if the U.S.S.R. could produce a few masterpieces, as it did 60 years ago. But happy endings are, after all, the stuff of movies, not moviemaking. And what Soviet filmmaker would dare hope for more than a resolute beginning...
...people are beset by risks all the time, much worse than anything that most Americans must contend with, and life does not grind to a halt. Unless Americans follow suit, they risk becoming a society that imitates T.S. Eliot's aging, fearful hero J. Alfred Prufrock: they would not dare to eat a peach...
...east of Santa Ana, in Usulutan province, the E.R.P. has consolidated its hold on another mountainous corridor, populated by nearly 200,000 peasants. Three years ago, the insurgents there were under frequent military attack. Civilian support was minimal. Today government troops dare only sporadic attacks, and they are frequently beaten back by peasant militias fighting alongside regular combatants. "We have established political control over the area," says "Raul," the rebel commander, "and now we are moving toward military control as well." He and other guerrilla leaders have lately obtained AK-47 assault rifles. They say the guns were bought from...
...unworldly as such places as Topeka, or Twin Falls, Idaho, where most of its inhabitants came from. The movies they made reflected and gained much of their strength from that innocence, and they resounded with a sincerity that no amount of artifice can duplicate. Would any scriptwriter today dare to type a corny line like this? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." The writers of The Wizard of Oz dared...
While the threatened author of The Satanic Verses remains in hiding, Khomeini aims his ire at those "misled liberals" who dare to support renewed relations with the West. -- The Soviet Foreign Minister storms the Middle East, trying to win friends and influence adversaries. -- The bumpy road to Soviet elections. -- A Japanese Emperor is laid to rest and so is a turbulent...