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...stock car, making two hours of left turns) and The Rock (Nicolas Cage revving a yellow Ferrari). Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, even Top Gun and Con Air (planes are just cars on a highway of clouds) and Armageddon (grease monkeys in outer space), all celebrate speed, combat and heavy machinery--three things that make every ride a macho adventure. A Bruckheimer movie without a car chase would be like a Woody Allen movie without whining...
...looks like the fall campaign will be straight hand-to-hand combat in the swing states," says Tumulty. Gun control in New Jersey. Social Security in Michigan. "He thinks he can win on the issues if he can keep it close until then...
...inevitably, will the funds to combat those diseases be channeled elsewhere. For the Del Webb interviewees also expected to be "setting the political agenda," and these four words may be even more important to the American future than the expected medical advances. There are today 3.4 wage-earning (and Social Security-contributing) American workers for every person over 65. In 2030 there will be only two workers for each of the elderly (which is why economist Hokenson, of DLJ, calls Social Security "the mother of all Ponzi schemes"). Those two are either going to have to work a lot harder...
...creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and ends with the actual footage of the annihilation of Nagasaki by a U.S. atom bomb on Aug. 9, 1945. What makes the images so immediate, however, is the harrowing commentary from some of the 23 combat cameramen interviewed for the film. "I came to view these cameramen as they view other servicemen--as heroes of the quotidian," says Schickel. "They were guys doing their jobs without thought of glory or fame. They remain unassuming, often humorous, always realistic about their accomplishments...
...moral? On television, at least, seniority means squat. Although sinewy Rudy could probably best all those young pups in hand-to-hand combat, he mourned, "I don't even know what MTV means." Maybe the seals should start teaching that...