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...HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT Directed by James Caan Screenplay by Spencer Eastman...
...easy to think of James Caan as just another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted...
Nonetheless, the two are drawn to each other in large and little tendernesses and spats. This is where the play drifts into emotions of sitcom dimensions. Herb falls in love with Libby, not incestuously, but romantically and possessively. Libby's mocking jests cannot hide the scars of the unrestorable years. At one point, she pins Herb down, demanding to know why he divorced her mother. Herb rather lamely answers that the lady totally lacked a sense of humor. Logically, this is the weak point of the play. A man as perceptive as Herb would have spotted a congenital...
...conduct a nonaligned foreign policy. He indicated that Zimbabwe would seek membership in the Commonwealth after the country becomes formally independent (probably next month). He also promised not to harbor or arm South African nationalist guerrillas. Pretoria accepted the election results, but leaders of its apartheid government could not hide their misgivings over the inspiration that Mugabe's victory may give to South Africa's black nationalists...
...room five years ago, seeing colorful shanty-towns spilling over the mountainsides a few hundred yards away from the luxury apartment buildings lining the seashore. Orphans slept and begged on the undulating, black-and-white mosaic sidewalks. Since then, though, the government has erected billboards advertising soft-drinks to hide the slums and has kept the kids off the pavement...