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Army, which a fortnight ago beat last year's national champion, Air Force, 20-0, will play in the Eastern Finals in Orlando on December...
Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) has a little trouble with numbers. In the confessional, whispering his sins of the past fortnight, Joey can't quite remember how often he committed adultery. Was it twelve times on ten occasions with seven women? He is determined to get it right, and if Joey doesn't, Kline does. His quietly fanatical scrupulousness makes the scene worth preserving in any moviegoer's imaginary cinematheque. Joey's confession comes at the beginning of I Love You to Death, a comedy that is hilarious all the way to the opening credits...
After weeks of languishing in low gear, Chamorro's campaign revved up over the past fortnight. She is relying on voters' pent-up fury with ten years of Sandinista mismanagement. Inflation last year hovered around 1,700%, unemployment around 25%. Real wages have dropped more than 90% since 1981. "All she has to do is point to the Sandinista record," says Alfredo Cesar, Chamorro's chief adviser. "She doesn't have to convince anyone she's better than Daniel Ortega...
...When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," Samuel Johnson once wrote, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The threat of impending ecological doom seems to be having the same effect on public opinion. If historians remember 1989 as the year the Iron Curtain collapsed, it has also been the year that concern for the environment reached a new peak...
...fact that Americans are notoriously unreliable when answering questions related to race was dramatically evident in the Virginia and New York City elections. Although several surveys in the final fortnight gave Wilder and David Dinkins comfortable leads (as high as 15 points for Wilder and 18 points for Dinkins), both contests turned out to be squeakers...