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...staunch anti-Communist side of Ronald Reagan would have little trouble suppressing that bit of sentiment were it not coupled with a new perception of what the Soviet Union is all about. As he has grown in office, Reagan has come to view the Russians no longer as cardboard-cutout Communists but as human beings in a multidimensional society, with a history that goes back beyond the 1917 Revolution. He has learned to appreciate why the Russian people, as opposed to their Soviet rulers, are so sensitive to charges of sociopathic behavior, why their concept of homeland is so important...
...your point with a punch line. Candidates are taking to the airwaves with props and gimmicks to get their messages, and their names, across to a frequently indifferent public. In person and on television, New York's little-known Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew O'Rourke is using a cardboard cutout of Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo to deride his popular opponent as "one-dimensional." South Dakota Congressman Tom Daschle, a populist Democrat hoping to unseat incumbent Senator James Abdnor, juxtaposes shots of long, gleaming limousines purring around Washington with , pictures of his own 1971 Pontiac wearily chugging toward the Senate Office...
...town. It is celebrated for sun and surf and margaritas, for driving with the top down and perpetual pursuit of youth. The city's Balboa Park is full of museums, but at least one of them, the San Diego Museum of Art, is not above erecting a giant outdoor cutout of the Cat in the Hat to lure spectators to an exhibition of the drawings of Dr. Seuss. This, then, is not the sort of place where a culture vulture might expect to find one of the nation's leading regional repertory companies. And he wouldn't -- he would find...
...takes more than a little coaxing to make the shy Sultan appear. He's a neurotic misanthrope after Woody Allen's heart. Even the Sultan's charmingly innocent daughter, Dahlia Prayer (Steve Lyne), is too frightening for him. The dippy Dahlia dances in with a string of cutout paper dolls, ecstatic at the sight of Alma and Gwen, whom she's already pegged as playmates. Maybe they can even talk about boys, whom she's never seen. "Do they really have horrible steel buzz-saw blades in their pants, like Daddy told me?" she asks...
...After reading the opening credits, one can easily view the remainder of the film without further brain activity. This is as much for the benefit of the audience as for the actors, for Commando does not offer much in the way of development. Schwarzenegger portrays a two-dimensional cardboard cutout capable only of delivering sour one-liners comprising nothing more than the most basic of sentence constructions punctuated by several hundred rounds of automatic weapons' fire. Despite the assistance provided by the visual aids, it is readily apparent that Arnold would have problems acting his way out of a light...