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...disgruntled employee is Donald Sullivan, known to the rest of the town as Sully. His boss is Carl Roebuck, played by Bruce Willis. Since mangling his knee on the job, Sully insists that he is owed compensation. His one legged lawyer, Wirf, portrayed marvelously by Gene Saks, can't get the local judge to agree. Unfortunately for Sully, his lawyer isn't on a hot streak. He can't even predict the outcome of a case on "The People's Court." Sully has a better chance of collecting money on the Trifecta ticket--a longshot in horseracing--that he plays...
...Sully's troubles are innumerable, and, realistically speaking, they ought to make him at least contemplate the possibility of defeat. He has banged up his knee working for exploitative Carl Roebuck (Bruce Willis in another of his astonishingly good character jobs), and his amiable, incompetent lawyer (Gene Saks) can't get him compensation. Sully is long since estranged from his wife, and his relationship with his college-professor son (Dylan Walsh), who has career and marital problems of his own, is difficult. Sully rents a room from a tolerant, spirited old lady (the late Jessica Tandy) who is beginning...
...Books: Carl Sagan surveys what's up with the universe...
...Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Paul Durrant, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Barbara Nagelsmith, Mark Rykoff, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...there was Earth, barely discernible against the background of stars, an image that inspired the title of The Pale Blue Dot (Random House; 429 pages; $35), the ninth book by astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan. Voyager's homeward glance was his idea, and the sight was humbling. "There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits," he writes, "than this distant image of our tiny world." To say nothing of the folly of wars, which from space would appear to be little more than "the squabbles of mites on a plum...