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...world of these volumes is both sane and sinister in the tradition of Kafka. Rules Relating offers this scenario...
...million soap followers, the fast and funny scenario may sound too good to be true. The average soap has a torturously slow plot so full of digression that weeks can go by before the heroine is forced to decide whether to paint her nails pink or red. Sex and violence only simmer; it can take years for marriage and divorce merely to be broached...
...second and more optimistic prospect is that Socialist Mario Soares could form a working alliance with Ernesto Melo Antunes, Foreign Minister in the outgoing government, and other sophisticated moderate officers in the M.F.A. In light of recent political events, this scenario is barely credible, but it envisions Scares and the moderates convincing a majority of uncommitted officers in the M.F.A. that they must, for the nation's sake, respect the political feelings of the majority of Portuguese. To do this, Soares would have to define and present a realistic economic and social program and have the courage to mobilize...
...Scenarios. Veteran observers of Lisbon's often baffling politics see two possible scenarios in the ensuing months; both focus on the left because rightist forces at present are completely scattered and discredited. One scenario is a relatively quick disintegration of the troika, with Gonçalves as the likely loser and the mercurial Saraiva de Carvalho emerging as a new strongman. Despite his popularity with the radical masses, the charismatic boss of the security forces would polarize discontent; he could only govern by imposing the kind of repressive measures the April 25 revolution supposedly abolished for good. Cunhal...
...version of The Happy Hooker is faithful to the book and then some. Director Nick Sgarro kept the American Dream theme going, in an age when everyone is wondering wistfully whatever happened to the self-made man, by presenting Xavier as the epitome of the self-made woman. The scenario is almost too complete: She arrives in the U.S. as a poor immigrant, a good girl, and gets a bad deal from her fiance (the only man she knows here). With no training and no capital, she makes do with what she has and goes into business for herself. With...