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...fire) to bishop (he becomes a director). But it is one of the many graces of Cinema Paradiso that it is content merely to observe the analogies between two faiths, not point up the conflict between them. Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore's manner is gently reflective, not satirical. His largest aim, and greatest success, is to re-create the lost spirit of a vanished movie era: the late 1940s and early...
...whether -- to proceed. Despite their overwhelming superiority of numbers, South African blacks pay allegiance to half a dozen movements with divergent goals and ideologies. All will settle for no less than black majority rule, but each has a different notion of how to obtain it. The A.N.C. commands the largest following, especially among the politically active young, urban, working and middle class. Yet many are uncertain about subscribing to the old socialist rhetoric that still colors A.N.C. pronouncements. Many more are doubtful about continuing the "armed struggle," which the A.N.C. has yet to disavow. Nevertheless, the A.N.C. has long demanded...
...McDonald's in the Soviet Union is scheduled to open this week. Situated on Pushkin Square, just a few blocks from the Kremlin, the restaurant will introduce a new concept: fast food. To handle the anticipated Big Mak attack, the McDonald's has a seating capacity of 700, the largest in the 11,300- restaurant chain, and can serve as many as 15,000 customers...
Currently, the largest such telescope is a 150-wide-foot dish in Japan, Goldsmith said...
...present Five College radio telescope, 45 feet wide, is the largest in North America designed to pick up millimeter wavelength signals from space...