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...world can bring off an Olympics with 140 countries from every continent participating, in spite of the pullout of a superpower, then perhaps we are learning to survive...
When Mondale is defeated in November, one thing should be made clear. His defeat will occur not because he chose a woman running mate, but in spite of his putting a woman on the ticket...
...times as many as in all of 1983. Communist Party Leader Erich Honecker has also proceeded with plans to visit West Germany next month, and will be the first East German leader ever to do so. East Germany's desire to maintain its relations with the West in spite of the Soviet-U.S. chill is shared in varying degrees by Hungary, which argued in favor of better economic relations with the West at the Soviet-bloc economic summit in Moscow last June, and Rumania, which did not follow the Soviet boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics...
...standard male character is at best foolishly romantic. Yet the final cycle of stories in this collection suggests that a wimp can turn into a mensch. For the first time in the Dixon canon his male character gets the girl. In the title story he actually marries her, in spite of an imagined, ironic commentary on his courtship by his late father. The story Wheels lovingly tells of the baby that is born of the marriage. In one affecting and indeed surprisingly beautiful scene, the man, in diapering his child, is reminded of a time when he nursed his dying...
...real ending consists of the next five minutes, with Prince and nothing else at the limelight--an appropriate conclusion for a movie that, in spite of occasional digression, is an extension of Prince's persona...