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...important? Says Hirsch: "You can read people a list of a dozen unique desserts in a restaurant and they'll say, 'What was that chocolate thing you said? I'll have that.' I don't know why, but Saturday night in America is chocolate night." Kumin and his growing legion of graduates seem intent on spreading the sweetness across the whole calendar...
...fifth film as Dirty Harry Callahan, Eastwood has built a durable celebrity on his unique brand of Zen surliness. By now his character need hardly cock an eyebrow, let alone a trigger, to send supervillains hurtling to their deaths. "Go ahead, punks," he might snarl as a new legion of psychopaths butts up against his belligerence. "Make my career...
...wasn't speaking to the American Legion," Reagan says. "I wasn't speaking to the Chamber of Commerce. I was trying to explain America and what we are all about." In his speech to Moscow's cultural elite, he gave new insight into why he finds himself breaking out of his stereotype as an unvarnished foe of what he once called the "evil empire." "In the movie business, actors often get what we call typecast," he said. "The studios come to think of you as playing certain kinds of roles, and no matter how hard you try, you just...
...Soviet Union, hopes to produce vegetable oils, starches and sweeteners with a Soviet partner. The company may also take part in a Soviet plan to increase the annual production of chickens from the current 500 million to 5 billion by the early 1990s. Starting next June, the growing legion of Soviet personal-computer users will be able to catch up on everything from software to peripherals in a new quarterly called PC World USSR, a spin-off of Massachusetts-based IDG Communications' PC World that will incorporate articles written by Soviet technical journalists...
...More rational observers, too, view Macbeth as fraught with difficulties. Its plot cannot work unless skeptical modern audiences will believe in witches and the supernatural. The central couple kill in unforeshadowed haste and repent in wearisome leisure. As a tyrant, Macbeth seems a paranoiac cross between Herod, slaughtering a legion of innocents to be sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families on purported instruction from God. Thus it is scant surprise that the Macbeth that opened on Broadway last week used up three directors, two sets and five Macduffs during a six-city...