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...Herald Tribune in Paris and told him he wanted to do a nightclub and film column. "He said if they wanted someone to do it, they'd find someone and it wouldn't be me, and he threw me out of the office," Buchwald recalled. Two weeks later, the intrepid would-be columnist heard the managing editor had left town for a while, and he went back to the Tribune to see the editor. After Buchwald explained that "the managing editor and I have been talking about me doing a film and nightlife column," the editor decided...
...give Carter the four more years he now covets so much. In fact, he possibly could be ready to become the leader he has not been. It also could be too late for all that. By almost every measure of the opinion polls and also by precinct explorations of intrepid reporters, the message clatters in from sea to shining sea: this election is for Ronald Reagan to lose. And Jimmy Carter made it that...
...linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most intrepid traveler sets off to find the source of the river and to learn who is responsible for his situation...
...police and spy thrillers and science fiction are snapped up by fans on publication day. The country's top mystery writer is currently Julian Semyonov, 48, whose latest, Tass Is Authorized to State ..., was published in an edition numbering 100,000 copies. It is the stirring tale of intrepid KGB agents vs. the CIA in an unnamed African country-manifestly Angola...
...better film than Star Wars, visually more exciting, more artful and meticulous in detail. As a special effects wizard, Lucas fairly dazzles the eye with his optical magic. In one scene, for instance, the walking tanks are impervious to ordinary weapons, and Luke and his band of intrepid fighter pilots are forced to use older methods. Circling the legs of one of the giant camel-like machines, a rebel fighter ensnares it, and it crumbles to the ground. On-screen that intricate maneuver takes perhaps 60 sec., but to put it there took the technicians at his Industrial Light...