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Uncle Leo's son, Paul, apes the crop-dusting sequence from Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" far too many times. Elaine tries to run him over in her airplane, milking the circling plane and fleeing victim sequence for its last drop of emotion. The scene exemplifies one of "Arizona Dream's" largest problems: it dwells too long on its once-witty gags...
...flaws in the proposal, children's advocates insist, are many and terrifying. By allocating money to the states in block grants, for instance, an unexpected economic downturn in one region could have catastrophic effects. "If the wheat crop is bad one year or Boeing lays off 5,000 people," says the Rev. Sam Muyskens, executive director of the Inter-Faith Ministries in Wichita, Kansas, "there will be more hungry children but no more money available to feed them." Muyskens' organization administered a recent survey that found that 1 in 22 children in Kansas should be classified as hungry. Republican lawmakers...
...more. She's being more trusting." The fact that one of Laura's sisters is going through a divorce makes the idea of building a secure marriage from the outset feel all the more urgent to this young couple. And in spite of the problems that have begun to crop up during a time when they wish only to focus on the excitement of planning a wedding, Laura insists she is looking into her future with, well, a somewhat tempered confidence. As she puts it, "I'm still sure we want to get married, and everything...
This year's contest had much of that homegrown intimacy, a family gathering where old hands reminisce and look over the crop of new talent. A saucy 17-year-old, Nicole Bobek, was crowned ladies champion; Todd Eldredge, 23, the top male skater. Their victories should give them a toehold on a brilliant future. At least that's the way it used...
...incoming crop of House members, Brownback said, Kasich found ``a chorus of angels singing to his soul.'' And last week, as the freshmen unveiled their plan to dismantle the Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing departments, Kasich stood with them. ``This is serious! This is real! And I love 'em all!'' the chairman crowed...