Word: blows
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...already watching the movie. Unlike most dramas that can only recreate the crime, the attack in question -- and most subsequent plot points -- are already on film. The videocam verite of the clubbing provides the same gritty realism that the Zapruder footage brought to Oliver Stone's JFK. The blow-by- blow of the investigation, the arrests, the confessions, the plea bargains -- it's all in the can. There was even a play within a play when stakeout cameras captured Tonya saving her illegally parked pickup from a tow truck. The most hardened Tonya detractor must have momentarily rooted...
...recently a NATO resolution last August authorizing air strikes to prevent the "strangulation" of Sarajevo -- had sputtered to nothing. For that very reason, argued a NATO official, if the Serbs defy the new ultimatum "we have to attack. If we didn't, NATO's credibility would suffer a fatal blow...
...carried that edge in the play intoovertime, generating most of the extra period'schances before Ashe administered the death blow...
President Clinton's health-care plan was dealt a blow when the influential Business Roundtable of 200 of the country's largest firms endorsed a rival plan sponsored by Tennessee Democratic Representative Jim Cooper -- this despite avid lobbying by the White House. The National Governors' Association, meanwhile, came out in favor of health-care reforms similar to those proposed by Cooper's bill, and the 215,000-member U.S. Chamber of Commerce said President Clinton's plan "cannot even be used as a starting point...
...complete break with the past." Fortunately, Paris survived Le Corbusier. But the idea might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could it be that by tearing down so much the Northridge earthquake has dealt Los Angeles the shock therapy it needs? That somehow the blow will compel the city to develop in ways that take account of the seismic dangers lurking beneath...