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...court of England's tyrannical Henry VIII. With crafty language and veiled speech, he was master of the legalistic surmise and the affidavit of denial. He was the pre-eminent lawyer of the realm. At the same time, More could spit scatology with the foulest pamphleteers in that feverish dawn of the printing press. And as he spewed, he cast a censorious eye on the revolutionary and newfangled free flow of information. He believed in banning books. He believed in burning heretics...
...none of it drying worth a damn. The Chief was called in. The Chief arrived. Long trip, cleanup at the hotel, dinner, back to the macaroni factory. All night long, The Chief paced, The Chief thought, The Chief would suddenly leap up and march off down the corridor. By dawn The Chief had a plan: he started with a 48-hour drying time and continued to shorten it until it reached the minimum at which macaroni dried satisfactorily. "We ruined a lot of macaroni," reported one of his associates...
...marchers clashed with riot troops assigned to protect a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly, the nation's highest constitutional body. On Friday night the run-ins exploded into a full-fledged battle, with soldiers chasing and shooting protesters with rubber bullets at close range. By dawn at least 14 civilians had been killed; more than 200 were reported wounded. At the Assembly building, sealed off by loops of razor wire and thousands of soldiers and police, legislators passed 12 toothless decrees that only glancingly acknowledged the students' demands to exorcise all memory of Suharto's dictatorial...
...Richmond piano recitals go into hibernation until March 28, with the eagerly awaited return of Richard Goode to the Celebrity Series. Goode's recital with Dawn Upshaw more than a year ago is still on people's tongues, and his gift for Beethoven and Brahms will draw the crowds...
...rely on excessive campiness. While Vampires never quite reaches the level of ingenious nonsense as, say, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, its clever blend of Dracula and The Wild Bunch makes for an embarrassingly fun ride. Much like the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez vampire spaghetti western From Dusk Till Dawn, Vampires doesn't have a shred of seriousness to it. Which is more credible--the sight of Daniel Baldwin cauterizing a wound with the barrel of a freshly shot machine gun or James Woods trying to stuff a dozen decapitated heads into a pillowcase...