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...cans to the ever enigmatic Santa suit. And why does Roberts choose to befriend a small marsupial, of all creatures, that he finds in his apartment. But this movie is definitely not, as one Boston critic put it, too weird for words. The comedy of Coca-Cola Kid is akin to that of Bill Forsyth, odd and ethnic, but not inaccessible by any means. In contrast to the supposed Oscar heavy-weights that have gone thud this fall, The Coca-Cola Kid doesn't take itself or anyone else too seriously. Even the apocalyptic closing caption is delivered with...
...even more interesting than Reed's resurfacing was the concomitant new interest in the Velvet Underground. Considering the band's last studio project, Loaded, was released in 1970, loving the Velvets is akin to loving the dead...
...disaster could have been far worse. In much of the 890 sq. mi. of Mexico City, an area that is home to 18 million people, life had returned to something akin to normal last week. The most severe damage was confined to a 13-sq.-mi. zone that encompasses the city's business district. Even there, the pattern of damage was quirky. Said Richard Bonneau, a member of a French rescue team that arrived in Mexico City two days after the quake: "We thought we would find one part of the city destroyed. But it's a building here...
...American as, well, cheesecake. After she won the Miss America title in Atlantic City last week, however, Susan Akin's first wish was for hot apple pie and ice cream. Since then, Akin, 21, a blond, blue-eyed public relations and communications major at the University of Mississippi, has been swept up in the whirlwind of talk shows, photo sessions and interviews that come with her crown. "For me, Miss America is the ultimate," says Akin, who has participated in at least 100 professional beauty pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques along...
...Gortikov denies such charges and instead talks generally about "de facto censorship" and "the possible dilution of rights." Ling, now a consultant for the P.M.R.C., asserts that "any artist who is a true artist won't care about a rating." Singers and songwriters have other ideas. "I feel more akin to the rebels than the reverends," says John Fogerty. "This whole thing sounds kind of dangerous to me. Who will assign these labels anyway? Once you get a rating system, you may then in fact not see certain records with certain ratings in the stores or hear them...