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THERE'S A DEATHWISH in this movie. From the opening scene, in which the protagonist Morgan Hiller (James Spader) narrowly averts decapitation by a slashing car aerial, to the final fight, involving everything from dart guns to fireaxes, the smell of blood hangs heavy in the air. And the strangest aspect of this adolescent brinksmanship is its complete premeditation--every character consciously seeks out dangerous situations and harrowing relationships...
...Harvard men's swimming team upped its season slate to 6-0 with an easy 76-37 victory over an outclassed Dart-mouth squad Saturday at Blodgett Pool...
...Gromyko asked the President, in English, "How many arrows will you shoot at me tomorrow?" Reagan smilingly answered that he had no arrows in his quiver. Gromyko pressed on: "Twenty arrows? Ten?" Reagan let Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., reply for him: "Not even a dart will be thrown...
Under the heading "Armor" was this classic paragraph: "Scout vehicles dart in, spot the enemy. Report, Call in the heavyweights. Tanks, Big Tanks. Up to 57 tons of steel and 750 horsepower come thundering in on each set of treads, Stop. Fire, Maneuver, Stand your ground, Slug it out, Mighty machines. But battles...
...make fun of him"-| and employs superb, old-fashioned draftsmanship to put character before comedy. "I try first to make a face believable," he says, "to give another dimension to a flat, linear drawing. Then my distortions seem more acceptable." While Levine often wields his pen as a poisoned dart, he thinks that there are definite limits to his art. "I might wish to be critical," he admits, "but I don't wish to be destructive. Caricature that goes too far simply lowers the viewer's response to a person as a human being." When...