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When Gus becomes interested in renovating andreopening an abandoned bowling alley with four ofhis friends but is unable to contribute his shareof the down payment, the idea dawns on him that ifLee were to get married he could keep the alimonymoney for himself. Gus' inept but supposedlyhumorous matchmaking occupies the core of themovie. When Gus is first persuading Lee to consentto a date which he sets up, he is mistaken by awoman in the park for 'Mr. Wonderful,' a man froma matchmaking ad whom she, ('Funny Face'), waswaiting to meet. The film takes its name from thiscutesy, artificial scene...

Author: By Clarissa A. Bonanno, | Title: Miserable `Wonderful' | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...second half, where the police search for the murderous kidnapper, is more dynamic, moving from the police station to the house to the streets. Also, the police literally search high and low, from the executives of National Shoes to the withdrawal zombies of Dope Alley...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Kurosawa's Exquisite Film, `High and Low' | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Name Min. Sv% GA Avg. Conroy, D 617 .889 0.58 DeLong, Cor 617 .846 0.88 Hess, Y 590 .852 1.37 Donahoe, H 745 .868 1.45 Kelly, B 435 .870 1.45 Fulton, B 435 .836 1.86 Alley, Pr 665 .783 2.03 Howansky, Cool 630 .811 3.33 OVERALL SCORING...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEADERS | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

About ten years ago, a Los Angeles Times columnist, desperate to find some meat for the next day's paper, convinced a friend to get a tattoo at a cheap, back-alley parlor. Returning to his hotel, the columnist tried out his story on the bell captain. The bell captain could not conceal his horror. "You made that poor girl get tatooed?" he asked. "Just for a newspaper story...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: TATTOO YOU | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...they please. For the poor, though, and for those without health insurance, choice is meaningless without the means to choose. Only 13 states voluntarily fund abortions for those who can't afford them; the poor elsewhere are looking to Clinton to save them from the back alley. But Clinton's options are limited by the Hyde Amendment, the 16-year- old constraint on the use of federal funds to finance abortions authored by Illinois Representative Henry Hyde. The law, which initially allowed federally funded abortions only if the mother's life was endangered, was expanded last , summer to include cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Will Abortion Be Covered? | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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