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Their logic did not prevail against the N.R.A.'s cold cash. Collectively, the Congressmen who voted to doom the waiting period have received $1,167,908 from the gun lobby in the past five years. The 70% of Americans who support tighter gun controls are rarely as passionate, vocal or generous...
What's a gal to do? Take what she can get, work hard and hope. The three new, earnest, off-Hollywood movies from this star-worthy trio -- Irving's Crossing Delancey, Arquette's The Big Blue and Winger's Betrayed -- suggest that when a project has doom scrawled across it, even an incandescent actress can't save the day. If her luck breaks even, maybe she can save herself...
...believe there are no limits to what America can do," Dukakis told delegates at the convention. No longer the party of doom and gloom, the Democrats sound positive about the future. And they should: after eight years of Reagan, the Democrats appear headed for victory come November...
Gorbachev is hardly a disinterested party in the matter: failure to modernize the economies and political structures of Moscow's closest trading and security partners would greatly complicate his efforts at home, if not doom them. The big question is whether the leap forward taken in Moscow can provide momentum for the satellites. "This is a watershed moment for all of Eastern Europe," said a Western diplomat in Warsaw. "One way or another, all these regimes must now respond to the reality that Gorbachev has prevailed...
...cartoons that inspired them. Nor do the human actors add much. Hoskins, in a role for which Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray were considered, lacks their effortless star quality. He's more like an armor-plated Yosemite Sam, gruff and explodable. Only Christopher Lloyd, as the evil Judge Doom with a scheme even more nefarious than the one hatched by the burghers of Chinatown, easily straddles the film's two worlds...