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...fact, that the blissful look that crosses his kindly face when he lays hands on a rocket launcher in a situation that compels its immediate use is the comic high point of this sequel. Anyway, he provides a high, sweet note of mysterious absurdity that occasionally cuts through the din of a movie that all too resolutely attempts to replicate the comedy megahit of the decade...
...ramming a book into my stomach that couldn't have weighed more than 25 pounds. "Review this by tommorrow. You've got a whole page to yourself. I'd talk to you about it, only I have to go feed my editorial assistant." As she went off shouting "Igor! Din-din!" I picked myself off the floor and looked at the book it was my fate to review. The Norton Anthology of Pretentious Literature proclaimed the dust-jacket. I read the description on the inside cover...
Amid the jumble of stalls, dense with the flow of human traffic and clattering with the din of vendors hawking wares, shoppers poke animals for tenderness and watch closely as purchases are weighed in hand-held balance scales, and mothers quiet crying children with cuts of sugarcane or towering lollipops of golden caramelized sugar pulled into flamboyant dragons...
Some of the other performers include the Din and Tonics, the Opportunes, the Veritones, the Radcliffe Pitches, singer Bryan Simmons, saxophone player Pat Romano, the Citystep dance troupe, Robespierre, and the Harvard Jazz Band...
...lives in a Ukrainian coal mine. Beyond such candor, Gorbachev seeks what he has called a "fresh voice" to provide criticism in the one-party Soviet Union. The Soviet leader may hope that Sakharov will play that role. If not, Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda a practical boost at home and a political lift abroad. Toward that end, Sakharov played his part well. "I have great respect for Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev," he told Western reporters. "I find the new policy...