Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, to parallel the sibling rivalry that Tommy and Dil are dealing with, Stu and his brother Drew bring up deep-seated fraternal arguments from their childhood, only to have them neatly wrapped up at the end of the film without a word of explanation. More dramatic than this sibling rivalry theme is Tommy's dilemma: to stay loyal to his best friend Chuckie or to fulfill his responsibility to his new brother. In fact, "sponsitility" plays an almost annoyingly large part in the storyline, giving a weird allegorical bent to the movie. These rather adult topics don't merge...
...always brutally practical, suggest they take Dil back to "the baby store" for a refund. After all, they reason, why keep a "broked" baby when they can get a new one that works better? Despite his misgivings, Tommy must go along for the ride to care for his younger brother as Chuckie and the twins take Dil back to the hospital in the Reptar Wagon, a crazy contraption built by Stu in his toy workshop...
...sequence, a hungry wolf and a large number of runaway monkeys which have conveniently escaped from a nearby monkey-circus train wreck, and you get a movie that's a little too big for its diapers. Come on--a two-year-old who can take care of his newborn brother for a whole night, armed only with a diaper bag and his own wits? Even so, it might have worked out in the end, if the filmmakers hadn't insisted on combining "deeper issues" within the shell of this rollicking adventure...
...become policy in the United States? Is privacy an eroding right in the age of pervasive and powerful technology? These are interesting questions raised by Enemy of the State, and will no doubt be issues debated on the floor of Congress over the next few years. One day, Big Brother could be watching...
...General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, is not usually known for producing page-turning whodunits. But the agency's report on Friday recounting Citibank's money dealings with Raul Salinas, the Mexican presidential brother who's been rumored to have links with drug lords, comes close. "The report is stark, unvarnished, and best of all a good read filled with details," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne. "It tells how investigators believe the bank showed Salinas how to hide $100 million...