Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect nothing new in a Schwarzenegger movie, and he usually delivers. Take Red Heat's final runaway-bus chase . . . well, action-movie finales are always boring; that's the time to get the popcorn. But there are pleasing character lines on the film's familiar muscular framework. The script, by Hill, Harry Kleiner and Troy Kennedy Martin, manages to work a little human plausibility, even poignancy, into a couple of cop-movie stereotypes: the black dope lord and the villain's duped wife. Belushi mines quick charm out of his surly role. And Arnold, starched tongue in cheek...
...deals with the budget squeeze on the Pentagon that Carlucci may make his influence felt beyond the final year of the Reagan Administration. His opening cost-cutting moves have by no means been adequate to the size of the problem. Nonetheless, they have won him bipartisan respect. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "He inherited a nightmare at the Defense Department, and he has shown exemplary leadership by turning it into merely a bad dream. He gets absolutely the highest marks...
...There is no way I really can explain how I came to be here." It is Wednesday evening, his fourth day and final night in Moscow, and Ronald Reagan's voice is frazzled with fatigue. Yet it also conveys a sense of wonder at his remarkable odyssey. It is the voice of baseball on radio in Des Moines, of Hollywood flickering off the screen, of Sacramento, of Washington, and now of Moscow: friendly, unhurried in the midst of planned chaos. He ventures the thought that so many shared while watching him co-star with his fellow showman Mikhail Gorbachev...
...began his study of the AIDS crisis eight months ago by warning that his findings would not be swayed by political considerations. Last week, before a packed Washington press conference, he ended the study with the same forthrightness. In issuing a 269-page draft of the commission's final report, he managed both to show a fine disregard for prevailing prejudices about AIDS and to issue a sharp challenge to the Reagan Administration. Going beyond a National Academy of Sciences report also released last week that criticized the White House for an "absence of strong leadership" in the AIDS fight...
...chairman of the President' s AIDS commission releases a final draft report and criticizes the White House for foot dragging...