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...genial Out of Sight is. Call it feel-good, call it sappy, but really, the movie is essentially cheerful. Everyone has fun. Bank robbing is a barrel of laughs, working for the Feds is better than taking out a personal ad, and, quick, inconvenient jail terms aside, only the really bad guys get punished. It's not fair for something this ideal, this utopian, this completely far-fetched to be so darn good. The illogical plot is utterly captivating from beginning to end, and the performances are superb. Out of Sight is really, well, out of sight...
Coming your way in time for the fall elections: speeches and ribbon cuttings for more than 1,800 pet projects tucked into the $203 billion highway law signed by President Clinton last week. Among the goodies Congress plucked from the pork barrel...
...they reinvented Godzilla. Instead of barrel legs that galumph through the Ginza, Godzilla now has runner's calves to sprint down Broadway. The lumpy, rubberized-corduroy look has given way to the towering if scaly athleticism pioneered by H.R. Giger's mantid man-eaters in the Alien series. And while the snub-nosed, micro-eared Godzilla of the '60s and '70s had a vaguely mammalian mien--appropriate for a creature whose Japanese name, Gojira, is an amalgam of kujira (whale) and gorira (gorilla)--the fin-de-siecle Godzilla has a crocodilian brow, iguana affectations, a T. Rex crouch...
...pickup truck, he pets his dog, leaves it in the cab and sets the vehicle on fire. Partly aflame, Jones runs into the highway he has commandeered. Pulling off his burning pants, he picks up a shotgun, places its butt against a wall, bends his head to the barrel and pulls the trigger. Live from L.A. The dog dies...
...Cambridge resident reported that at 10 a.m. on April 28, she made a purchase at a Brattle Street store, but she does not remember the clerk giving back her credit card. She was later informed that unknown persons had used this card to make purchases at Crate and Barrel and The Gap later that same...