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Preceding Bush to Los Angeles, Bentsen inspected evidence of gang violence--guns, knives and a bullet-riddled car--which he said had increased during the Reagan administration. Bentsen said Bush had led the war against drugs as vice president and "blew it badly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke, Bentsen Launch Offensive | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

Bentsen toured the Los Angeles Country Sheriff's "Operation Safe Streets" program in the Carson area, a major site of violent gang activities, and took the occasion to blast Bush's role in the administration's anti-drug campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke, Bentsen Launch Offensive | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

MARRIED TO THE MOB. Another brand of all-American capitalism, the Mafia, takes its licks in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...more than postadolescent punks. And the surveys tell us that some of our most potent box-office attractions, especially among the teens of summer, are postadolescent hunks. Can't blame a producer for thinking there might be fun and profit in having a group of the latter play a gang of the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Opera | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Mostly, though, they run in circles, aimlessly looking for trouble, just like a modern urban gang. That is not, however, an apt analogy. The film is basically a drag, and not helped by Christopher Cain's stand-around direction. And one's thirst for the clear, cool taste of traditional narrative -- motivated movement, defined antagonists, building suspense -- soon reaches maddening levels. A grownup could die in this wasteland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Opera | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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