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...nicely poised, sometimes ironic balance of twin protagonists at play in a high-stakes game of blindman's buff gives The Hunt for Red October solid dramatic tension. Still, this obviously could have been a movie in which a lot of people stood around talking in tight spaces; in other words, a movie that refused to move. But screenwriters Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart do not overexplain (or underexplain) either its technology or the intricacies of its far-darting plot. We know all we need to know to keep our bearings and not a monosyllable more. And director John McTiernan...
...year the capitol Government of the great state of Wisconsin arranges for what-is-now-known-as a Holiday Tree, which rises up from the floor into the great empty space below the dome. The tree is remarkably ugly. Not originally of course; it was clearly, when in the buff in stark Wisconsin nature, a fine pine of northern stock; but they had taken this poor tree and given it a cosmopolitan makeover which completely concealed the fact that 'twas ever a nat'ral-born tree, free and proud...
...Yankee-Hater, which is just that, was published in 1981. He is / now editing a book on Lawrence Park, the turn-of-the-century artists' colony in Bronxville, N.Y., where he grew up and lives today. Our renaissance lawyer is also an avid bird watcher, gardener, art buff and rock-'n'-roll aficionado: his raunchy rendition of Blue Christmas, Elvis-style, is the highlight of the law department's annual lunch...
...bloodshed began shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when Marc Lepine, 25, an unemployed electronics buff who once aspired to study at the engineering school, arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side...
Textile Titan. Many skeptical eyes are turned on William Farley, the physical-fitness buff who acquired Northwest Industries, the maker of Fruit of the Loom products, for $1 billion in 1985. Last February Farley took over textile giant West Point-Pepperell in a $3 billion raid that included $1.6 billion of junk-bond financing. A fellow raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying...