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Something similar might be said of Hollywood this summer -- the so-called summer of the sequels. Between now and August, moviegoers will be offered up seconds of Ghostbusters and Lethal Weapon, a third Karate Kid, fifths of Star Trek and A Nightmare on Elm Street, an eighth Friday the 13th and, for the 17th time around, James Bond, in Licensed to Kill...
...13th Surgeon General, whose second term runs through the end of the year, almost never got a chance to don a uniform. When Koop, a retired pediatric surgeon, and his wife Betty moved to Georgetown in early 1981 to await his confirmation, they became proof of the old saw that if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog. The process, expected to take a few days, turned into nine nightmarish months of name-calling and personal attacks, as liberals stalled his confirmation. He was called a right-wing crank, a prolife nut, a religious zealot, inexperienced, Dr. Unqualified...
...series of scars in the form of inverted crosses, an apparent sign that he was selected to kill. Later, police dispensed their own summary justice. Hauling one of the dopers back to the grave site, they forced him to dig in the blazing sun until he uncovered the 13th body...
...most exciting matches was between Dragomirescu and Jessica Emmons, the 13th-ranked singles player in the country...
...severe mutilation. But 20th century Italy, like Germany and Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th, Italian painters and sculptors ruled the European roost, setting the standards of achievement by which Western culture judged itself. By the 19th century this primacy was lost, and throughout the modernist era Italy produced no equivalents to Picasso, Matisse or Mondrian...