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...able to maintain a crucial balance: the one that his script intends between his two stars. Field is, as always, coolly expert, but with as much mystery about her as a bottle of Mop & Glo. Hanks, on the other hand, is our reigning master of desperate expediency. His amuck parody of Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain number goes into realms beyond performance...
...years later, Savitch's troubled life is being resurrected in two searing biographies: Almost Golden by Gwenda Blair, a veteran magazine writer, and Golden Girl by Author Alanna Nash. The books tell many of the same painful stories, but while Nash writes a cautionary tale about personal ambition gone amuck, Blair sets Savitch's rise and fall against the larger backdrop of television-news history. Ultimately, neither writer completely succeeds in conveying what made Savitch run, perhaps because her personal demons were so well masked...
...increase in death-squad activities and other human-rights abuses. ARENA Founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major who ran against Duarte in the 1984 elections and has since yielded his party's leadership to Cristiani, has been linked by U.S. intelligence to the killer squads that ran amuck in the early 1980s...
...star from the moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could play an existential hero (Duck Amuck), a base canard (You Ought to Be in Pictures), a hard-breathing hoofer (Show Biz Bugs) or a World War II draft dodger (Draftee Daffy). Wily farceur, dynamite showman, he made 126 pictures before retiring in 1968. For years he could be seen only on kiddie TV shows or -- oh, the ignominy...
...procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared an "open season on black people...