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Like summer rock concerts, summer movies will offer volume, volume, volume. More than 60 pictures will clog the cinemas. Paramount production chief Sherry Lansing is counting on hit films to breed other hits. "If people can't get into a popular film," she says, "they don't go home; they go to another one instead." But what movie to go to? In this summer swarm, you can't tell the major players without a scorecard. Here's ours...
...teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips as Robicheaux's adopted Salvadoran daughter and pet three-legged raccoon, named Tripod, and one has a gumbo to clog any narrative. It doesn't, because Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his region...
Sketching quickly, letting a line stand for a landscape, the author shows us Moscow in the month before last year's coup. Marxism's fragments still clog streets and government offices. The ruble is nearly worthless. Murderous Chechen bandits and corrupt former party officials war bloodily over control of the new capitalism, which turns out to be the old black market grown great. Ordinary people stand in lines for food, and when they have time, go to work...
...willing to tolerate and, more important, what personal details each one will permit the other to use either in court or in the eventual tell-all book. "Looking at me cross-eyed" could emerge as the most common charge of misconduct in the personal nuisance suits that will clog the legal system...
...wear [Birkenstocks] not because I'm a hippie burnout, but because they're the most comfortable shoes you can buy," says Marc C. Foster, a rising senior at Lexington High School, though he admits that his choice of footwear may be directed by his parents' "clog genes hanging...