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Kramer vs. Kramer is one of those movies that does not come around often. A rare combination of deft acting and a believable story, it draws you in, holds your attention and forces you to become emotionally involved. It was not an easy movie to write or direct, but Robert Benton has succeeded in treading the fine line between washed-out soap opera and documentary. The result is a rare treat--a film that does not preach but makes its point, a film that makes you feel but does not jerk, a film that does not pretend to have...
When it came to taking direct action in support of the U.S. embargo, however, many U.S. allies proved skittish. Two of the other major grain exporters?Canada and Australia?agreed not to increase their sales to the Soviets, but they would not cancel any existing contracts. The other big exporter, Argentina, refused to cooperate at all with Washington. The West Europeans are not selling grain to the Soviets, but refused to curb their sales of high technology. Said French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet: "We have no intention of modifying our commercial relations with the U.S.S.R." Added a German...
...Israeli leader came away from the summit with further tokens of Sadat's determination to make peace a reality. The leaders agreed that there would be an exchange of ambassadors on Feb. 26, one month after the formal establishment of relations. The Egyptians also expressed willingness to establish direct air service between Tel Aviv and Cairo, to set up postal and telecommunications links, and open the land borders between the two countries to civilian traffic. In agreeing to go ahead with these arrangements, declared a beaming Begin, Sadat had shown himself to be "a man of his word...
...must have a missio canonica (canonical mission to teach) from the local bishop. In Kung's case, this is Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Austria is the only other nation where a concordat gives bishops so much power over theologians at secular campuses. Elsewhere, except for schools under direct church control, the Vatican has only the power to inform Catholics that a professor's views are not sanctioned...
There's a cat-juggling scene in The Jerk, the first movie in which Martin has starred, and although it is a direct cinematic translation of the record album sketch, it does not work very well. The kittens used by the juggler (a gent listed in the credits as Pig Eye Jackson) seem pretty confused, and they don't do much except twist a little in the air. Martin expresses his ambivalent disgust, but since he helped write the screenplay, and since real kittens, no doubt much confused, must have been used to film the sequence, the moviegoer...