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...restless, inquiring mobility. As both a film maker (Romeo and Juliet, The Champ, Endless Love and an experienced opera director, Zeffirelli understands both genres. In Soprano Teresa Stratas (Violetta) and Tenor Placido Domingo (Alfredo), he has chosen two exceptionally convincing singing actors. But film also demands motion, sweep and scope, so at intense moments the camera breaks free of its traditional front-row-center moorings and begins to roam. As counterpoint to Alfredo's second-act aria, in which he ardently-if prematurely-credits Violetta's love with taming his fiery spirit, there is a gentle pastorale...
...book's greatest weakness comes in its limited attention to the role of ideology in Soviet military policy--an issue which, though perhaps is outside the work's scope, is impossible to divorce from any discussion of nuclear arms. Holloway, like many American officials, seems undecided on how much of Soviet action derives from its stance as protector of the socialist faith and how much from its role as super-power. In the end, he attributes too much to Merlots-Leninist doctrine and not enough to sheer Machiavellian power...
Mason had no previous work-related problems or criminal record, Chafin said. Prospective security employees undergo examination of their past work experience and personal background, although the check is "somewhat less than that of a police officer because of the scope of the job," Chafin said...
...council of scientists and other experts in fields ranging from biology to aeronautical engineering. Harry Woolf, who will head the council, is director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Says Arthur Zeikel, president of Merrill Lynch Asset Management as well as Sci/Tech: "Our international scope, professional management and scientific advisory council will put Sci/Tech on the cutting edge of the rapid changes in science and technology around the globe...
Political ideology has jeopardized the present arrangement of the EMS. Yet in order to secure its still essential aims, the Europeans must broaden its scope. Lingering in most European minds is the desire for American participation in currency talks and alignments. The U.S. dollar is a bit of a colossus to European, and an indifferent one at that. Reagan's strong-dollar stance has been insufferable, for a mighty dollar makes any cut in oil prices of a windfall for Common Market countries. France alone stood to have gained $3.5 billion from the recent OPEC slash, but the devaluation...