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...Company) or in-laws (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart). With Nadine, he blends the two. Vernon Hightower, who owns a bar teetering toward bankruptcy, is a congenital optimist. Nadine, his estranged wife, sees life too clearly to find much hope in it. Cute couple for a caper film -- maybe even a fun couple, game to turn love-hate into love-great and to con the local crooks. Well, no. As played by Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally, underdeveloped dramatically. The picture is plenty handsome, and Glenne Headly and Rip Torn have...
Finding anything worth eating in this morass of haute junque proved as difficult as avoiding thorns among roses. Still, there were a few honest and tempting candidates that rate consideration for fall shopping lists. The most esoteric and intriguing are caper berries from Spain, which have the same piquant tingle as the smaller, more familiar caper. Attached to their stems, these berries could become the status garnish of the year, perhaps replacing olives or lemon twists in martinis. Finnish bakers have a way with malty, palate-scrubbing sourdough rye crisp breads; the latest welcome entry is Kings Bread, crackling thin...
...reveal the caper's finish...
...passed as an amendment to a pending omnibus trade bill, the Federal Government is required to seek financial compensation from Toshiba and Kongsberg for the technology leak. Some Congressmen estimate that it could cost the U.S. up to $30 billion to bolster its defenses in the wake of the caper...
...October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped. The caper put a strain on Israel's relations with Britain and Italy...