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...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...
...martial-law regime has tried to pin the blame for Poland's weak economic performance on U.S. trade sanctions, which were imposed after the military crackdown last December. The sanctions have indeed hurt Poland indirectly by holding up agreement on rescheduling payment of Poland's $27 billion foreign debt. The sanctions have also choked off the flow of Western capital that will be needed if the economy is to revive over the next four years. But, as one Polish intellectual observed: "I never hear anyone on the bus grumbling about Reagan's sanctions. I do hear people...
...dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents" for a flock of unchaperoned prostitutes, and his office will become...
...Woods backs up a few years. Daniel finishes his freshman year at a Boston college, spends the summer at his family's vacation house and returns to school. Few periods are as difficult to pin down as that brief limbo between the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood. The mysteries of the physical and the spiritual, the image and the imagination are fresh and beckoning...
...engage an Iraqi army of about the same size. "Operation Ramadan" had begun. The first Iranian goal appeared to be the capture of Basra and much of southern Iraq, from which the invaders could either press on to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital 280 miles to the northwest, or pin down Iraqi divisions while a second invasion force was launched directly at Baghdad, which is only about 75 miles from the border...