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...together with Congress," said Clinton, who instructed his aides to contact leaders of both parties. At Clinton's urging, Lake ordered his aides to accelerate their review of Somalia policy, and had a draft in hand by Monday night. Also on Monday, Lake called Oakley, the blunt-spoken retired ambassador who had done some effective political work early in the Somalia intervention, to get advice about a more active political approach...
Pets brained with blunt objects, toddlers gurgling for help in icy waters, small children lobbed off precipices: The Good Son is good clean fun. Despite the promising subject of a sweet-talking grade-scool psychopath, plenty of mollifyingly gratuitous violence, fine acting, and tension, the film is dull. Not knowing with precisely which weapon the final duel will be fought does not constitute suspense...
...collective id of the players was already breathtaking. Now comes Barry Diller -- hypersmart, overweeningly arrogant, terrifyingly blunt -- teamed up with John Malone, who is said to operate in a perpetual suffer-no-fools, scorched-earth mode...
...film ends with an earthquake rumbling across L.A. Such periodic seismic uproars are, of course, something more than an annoyance. There's nothing funny about them and no technology to fight them. They are nature's blunt reminder that life in L.A. is transitory, that the very ground under one's ! feet is not to be trusted...
Police would not comment on what might havecaused the blunt trauma to Whalen's head, but theBoston Globe reported that a hammer removed fromthe scene was being tested in connection with thehomicide...