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...Saturday Night" Billy Crystal portrays Buddy Young, a comic who has spent fifty years fighting his way to the middle. Young's story is presented in the form of flashbacks which reveal how Buddy is his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close to him. The movie entertains by presenting Young's more obnoxious moments and leaves you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding has-been...
...Saturday Night" Billy Crystal portrays Buddy Young, a comic who has spent fifty years fighting his way to the middle. Young's story is presented in the form of flashbacks which reveal how Buddy is his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close to him. The movie entertains by presenting Young's more obnoxious moments and leaves you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding has-been...
...there are serious doubts about the country's intrinsic health. Its educational system is in crisis, its industries faltering, its investment in itself too meager. "In a world whose workers require ever more basic education, technological savvy and specialized skill," Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies write in their book Crystal Globe, "America's schools are the least successful in the Western world." Says ! Brookings' Steinbruner: "There's no way of overcoming disparity in economic fortune without overcoming the disparity in education." U.S. spending on civilian research and development is 10th in the world, a level that M.I.T.'s Thurow estimates...
Enter Ross Perot, a paranoid hoist by his own self-regard who could nonetheless end up as Bush's secret weapon. Most observers are focusing on the state-by-state matchups -- whom Perot will hurt more in which key states, a crystal-ball exercise whose only safe conclusion at this point is that Perot hurts either Clinton or Bush or both or neither. Meanwhile, Baker & Co. believe that victory requires blowing the current campaign dynamic across the board; surgical strikes won't do. "If Clinton fractures anywhere, he will fracture everywhere," says a Bush campaign official. "Perot serves that possibility...
...notion that our illustrious Vice President has emphasized. But your presentations are anything but humorous. Reading that Jordan Ellenberg is tall and somewhat goofy does not exactly make me break out into uncontrolled laughter. Reading that Malcolm Heineske dresses like a candidate is not on the par of Billy Crystal's or Robin Williams' material...