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...necessary to convene such an international pep rally before his first meeting next week with President Bush underscored Shamir's well-founded worries about his standing abroad, notably in the U.S. Shamir's convocation could not disguise the growing impatience of many Jews outside Israel. They bridle at his stubborn resistance to any accommodation with the rebellious Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. Nor could the event paper over his fear of the increasingly assertive attempts to force him to adopt a more flexible stance. That activism strengthens Washington's effort to prod Israel into direct...
...economy sent a calming signal last week but abruptly followed it with a disturbing one. First the Government said the stubborn U.S. trade deficit narrowed in January to $9.5 billion, for a $1.5 billion decline from December. Economists were particularly heartened because imports fell nearly 7%, indicating that the economy was cooling off and inflation was not getting out of hand...
...everyone is so pleased with More. His perturbed wife Alice (Allison Weller), provides a strong support performance. Pacing the stage, wringing her hands, worrying over her husband's stubborn adherence to ideals, Alice fears that her husband behaves too much "like a printed book...
...settings and the personalities that enlightenment creates without wanting, myself, to be thoroughly enlightened." Looking back on his career, he criticizes himself for having been too pliant and obedient, too willing to "go along" with the exigencies of reality. But in the process he displays his self, the stubborn core that countered and threw waves back against the current of his times...
ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of the imperiled landscape. In the remarkable pictures that Adams has been making since the mid-1960s, nature's stubborn beauty is forever being elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April...