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SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. A suave beast (Patrick Bergin) tracks down his abused wife (Julia Roberts) after she has faked her death and escaped his clutches. A good idea for a feminist thriller soon degenerates, under Joseph Ruben's direction, into a wheezy lady-in-distress melodrama. Paging Barbara Stanwyck...
...into brutality. If she does anything wrong, or nothing wrong, he will beat her into zombie silence. So Laura fakes her own death and flees to small-town safety in the care of a solicitous drama teacher (Kevin Anderson). But Martin is as tenacious as he is possessive. The Beast will find Beauty. And Laura will again be in mortal dread, as she must, of the things a man can do to a woman...
Disgruntlement among the press was roiling all week. Press briefings in Saudi Arabia grew testy, as tight-lipped officers evaded questions as simple as what the weather was like over Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams was fending off more attacks than an Iraqi supply depot. "There is a beast of war out there, an elephant we're trying to describe," said a frustrated Forrest Sawyer on ABC's Nightline. "Based on the information we're given, we're about at the toenail range." Pentagon briefings, meanwhile, churned out sterile numbers (1,000 sorties a day, 80% of them successful...
Ever since its creation in 1969, the Public Broadcasting Service has been an unwieldy, multiheaded beast. Most PBS series are initiated and produced under the auspices of individual stations, funded by a patchwork of public and corporate sources and scheduled (in many cases) according to the whims of local program directors. That worked well enough in the days when PBS was essentially the only alternative to the three commercial networks. But cable has made life more complicated. Such channels as the Arts & Entertainment Network and Superstation TBS have appropriated the kind of programming that was once unique to PBS, from...
...staple of the supermarket frozen-food section. In its ocean domain, this monster grows to 400 lbs. or more and cruises for up to 40 years. It is ugly too; during maturation the skull of the halibut twists, moving one eye to the opposite side and giving the beast -- naturally enough -- a grotesquely pained look. Well, its sufferings are over. Aquaculturists, again in Norway, have produced a dwarf version, at a mere 15 lbs., that takes only three years to reach market size, rather than the 10 required by the wild variety...