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That gloomy assessment reflects one of the great ironies of current events. At the moment when democracy and free enterprise have triumphed over communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the U.S. is paying the price of capitalism run amuck. Maimed by the prodigious explosion of debt that characterized the 1980s, the overburdened economy is undergoing a painful consolidation and a shift in values away from the fast-money, speculative practices that came at the expense of financial soundness and long-term growth...
...they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed), or a freshly bagged slice of pie (tax free) as opposed to a similarly sized prepackaged pie (taxable). While conservative talk-show hosts ridicule the new laws as regulation run amuck, liberal critics blister them as unfair: a worker's pretzel is subject to the tax, but a CEO's caviar...
...also a macho movie that scorns the male-stud ego: the picture believes that the only good man is a mechanical man. And it parades its fabulous film technology while predicting that the world could end when military technology -- the Strategic Defense Initiative, here called Skynet -- runs amuck. It's a Star Wars movie that is anti-Star Wars. All these colliding metaphors feed nicely off Cameron's belief in the duality of human nature. "Within us," he says, "we have both a compassionate sensitivity and a violent beast. That beast, coupled with technology, got us to where...
OSCAR. Sylvester Stallone, in his first intentional comedy since Rhinestone, shows a light step as a recovering gangster in John Landis' Prohibition-era farce. Doors slam, satchels are snatched, offspring spring up, puns run amuck. It's all inexcusable -- and irresistible...
...movie, a marauding mollusk would probably be played by a giant clam. But the real-life monster swimming amuck in the Great Lakes is a tiny creature the size of a fingernail. With its jaunty brown stripes, a solitary zebra mussel looks cute, not threatening. The trouble is that the animal is anything but a loner, and its tendency to form colonies of thousands, even millions, makes it threatening indeed...