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...group of House Democrats, led by Californian Mel Levine, has proposed a plan under which Reagan would impose a six-month moratorium on military maneuvers in Central America, resume bilateral talks with Managua and meet personally with the Contadora group to discuss a peace plan. When asked if he would go along with the proposal, Reagan said, "No, I think six months is too long a time with what we're facing down there...
...other Democratic contenders thus far are: State Senator and activist George Bachrach (D-Watertown), State Representatives Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton), William F. Galvin (D-Allston), and Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay), former State Representative and two-time Boston mayoral candidate Mel King, Cambridge activist Carla Johnston, James Roosevelt Jr. '68--a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04--Boston City Councilor Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, who entered the race this week, Watertown international lawyer James Spiegal, and Robert M. Cappucci...
...eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London, for instance, between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton...
Anyone who has seen a Mel Gibson movie can identify an Australian accent, but the band's obvious Outback origins made little impression on the dance-oriented audience. "Where in England are you from?" an awestruck female fan asked Faulkner after the concert...
...today now loom eternal in heaven, purgatory and (most likely) the deadlier, diabolical realms down under. Think about it. What does become a legend most--Natalie Wood in blackglama mink or Natalie Wood in a shroud? And who would Harvard students most want to see gracing their dorm walls--Mel Gibson brandishing a laser gun or James Dean brandishing a cigarette? And what picture better represents mock-native cinematic sexuality than Marilyn Monroe struggling with her out-of-control white frock over a dark subway grid? Even Madonna's hairy armpits can't compete...