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Indy 3, like Raiders, features airplane stunts, a brawl on a careering vehicle and a sacred quest: a search for the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper. The film expands the role of Denholm Elliott as a museum curator and tosses in a cameo appearance by Adolf Hitler, who autographs Henry's Grail diary. A new twist is Elsa (capable Alison Doody), a blond sorceress poised between greed and glory. She is an Indy gone wrong, and the series' first indispensable female...
...condition that Reagan accepted a year ago but that Bush has rejected. Noriega may attempt to reopen negotiations with the U.S. on that matter, if only to buy time. Unless a solution can be found quickly, Bush, like Reagan, could find himself sinking ever deeper into a frustrating brawl with a dictator whom few care for but no one knows...
Moody became Central America bureau chief this year, following a two-year stint in Mexico City. From his new base in Costa Rica, he will be visiting Panama often -- eventually, he hopes, under more pleasant circumstances. "Covering violence in Panama is like observing a brawl in a ballroom," he says. "It's a shame that a place so beautiful should be exposed to such goings...
...sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner from a starting line last season. "I told him I would give him an autograph after the race," she said, "but he grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go." Reggie Jackson often conducted debates of this kind with his public, including a beery brawl in Milwaukee that escalated when a shredded Jackson autograph got sprinkled on his french fries...
...Think of any problem on a college campus--a date rape, a racial incident or a brawl. Most of the time, this will be [related to] drinking," Wechsler says. "This is not strictly cause and effect. We cannot conclude that alcohol causes these problems. It could be that the same type of person who drinks gets into this type of trouble," Wechsler says. "But it certainly contributes...