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...nationally recognized expert in elder care, Solomont, 45, is a registered nurse who built his ADS Group into one of the largest nursing-home chains in the Northeast. After supporting Clinton in 1992, he joined Washington's special-interest pleaders as the new Administration was finalizing nursing-home regulations that toughened enforcement of quality standards and resident rights. Solomont says he saw his role as a "bridge between the provider community and this Administration." Although health-care bureaucrats knew of his Clinton ties, he says, "I didn't approach them as a supporter of the President but as someone...
Certainly the contours and resolution of the plot proved to be one of the most irresistible appeals of the film. No ambivalent finale lies in store for the moviegoer in search of escapism; aside from the necessary sacrifice of a leading hero (Alec Guinness' venerable elder, Ben Kenobi), the spacemen in white hats (or helmets) prevail in the end. A thoroughly unpretentious narrative, the story succeeds in assuring its audience that all modern movies need not be full of existentialist greys to attract reasonably discerning cineastes...
...acting in "Star Wars" will never make the movie stick in anybody's memory. Aside from the usual polish with which Guinness coats his role of the elder Kenobi, both the performances of the cast and the cast itself add up to a forgettable sum. Many of the actors' names appear in a film's credits for the first time or one of the first times as the "Star Wars" cast is ticked off: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. Admittedly, the quality of many of the characters imposes severe restrictions on the range of the dramatic possibilities available...
...elder Zimmerman even attended preseason practices just to introduce himself to the team members...
...incurring debt, must always have enough money in the bank to run for a year even with no revenues. (It currently has $8 billion in cash and no long-term debt.) "I was living with him at the time, and I got so pissed off I moved out." The elder Gates smoothed things over, and soon the new employees were hired...