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...session with Reagan. "There were no significant changes. It was impossible." Said Mark Andrews of North Dakota, who had been elected in the Reagan landslide of 1980: "These great savings turn out to be non-savings." Andrews dismissed the lower fuel costs as "just a windfall from some sheik." Nor did conservative Democrats give any promise of support. Complained James Exon of Nebraska: "Not a single bullet has been cut." Members of both parties remained unconvinced that the nation could afford the buildup Reagan envisions in the face of a fiscal 1983 budget deficit that now approaches $208 billion...
Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is bright, Jewish and just pretty enough to be told she has that Audrey Hepburn quality. "Sheik" Capadilupo (Vincent Spano) is Italian and shiftless, with Vaselined hair and a wardrobe that Giorgio Armani might have designed for Jimmy ("the Weasel") Fratianno. She loves rock 'n' roll, he loves Sinatra. She's going to Sarah Lawrence, he's going nowhere. They have nothing in common but an over whelming love for her. But something in Jill thrills to the troubles Sheik gets himself into and to the threat he poses to her middle...
...young actors find a way to twist or energize the clichés. You can catch a glisten of moisture in the eye of an "easy," misused girl who's too proud to cry; or contemplate Jill's half-embarrassed smile when she goes dancing cheek to Sheik; or fall in with the gliding camera that circles the young lovers during their first sexy kiss. Sayles is, as always, wise and fair to his mismatched characters. His movies look as if they were made by a fly on the wall that had an advanced degree in psychology...
...Mercedes-Benz and knocked into a utility pole; in Los Angeles. His recuperation was undoubtedly speeded by the award last week to one of his clients, Dena al-Fassi, of the largest divorce settlement ever granted: half the claimed $6 billion fortune of her ex-husband, Saudi Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi...
Other speakers have had trouble lately being heard in academe. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, now, improbably, a conservative born-again Christian, was drowned out by several hundred screaming protesters when he tried to speak at the University of Wisconsin. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani began a talk at Kansas State University. A roar of protest erupted from the back of the auditorium. The hall had to be cleared for 80 minutes...