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Propping up Marcos will only serve to polarize the political scene in Manila. The Filipino center symbolized by Aquino is still a vibrant force, capable of assuming leadership and reinstating democracy. But if Washington continues to ignore the center in favor of Marcos, increasingly frustrated centrists will move to the extreme left. Then the Communists will constitute the only viable alternative to Marcos. And unless the latter dismantles the authoritarian state apparatus he himself erected--an unlikely prospect--the Communists will take power and the U.S. will be out in the cold. No moral argument here, just sheer pragmatism...
...overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell...
...infusion of British custom into the complex Indian society, and the heroines' search for emotional and physical fulfillment. Unlike The French Lieutenant's Woman, which presented concurrent plots clouded in fantasy and misty symbolism, Heat and Dust successfully intertwines the two plots such that both seem real and vibrant on their own. Yet it is only when they are considered as parts of a whole that the true power of the film becomes evident...
ENGAGED. Mary Tyler Moore, 45, vibrant television and film actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People); and Dr. Robert Levine, 31, Manhattan cardiologist. The wedding, planned for around Thanksgiving, will be her third, his first...
...England; many of her excellent women live through it, in a round of jumble sales, festivals, parish politics and hopeless crushes on clergymen. If Pym's ecclesiastics tend to be a weak, feckless lot, it is no wonder: they are endlessly cosseted by women. One of her most vibrant characters is Harriet Bede in Some Tame Gazelle, actually an affectionate portrait of the author's sister Hilary. This middle-aged lady is crazy about curates, the younger and more threadbare the better. Any veteran of her bounty-rich food, good sherry, hand-knit woollies-is spoiled for life...