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...shortly before noon when the gang of thieves struck. By ripping a screen and prying open a ground-floor window, they entered the Lily Furgerson Child Development Center in Waterloo, Iowa, and swiftly made off with $350 worth of goods. But the weekend burglary had a twist. The robbers were three small children ages 4, 5 and 7. The loot: three fancy tricycles...
Peter Weller, who was the neurosurgeon-nuclear physicistrock star hero of Bucakroo Banzai, plays Murphy, an average police grunt in 1990s Detroit. After a gang of cop-killers wastes him, Murphy is brought to a laboratory where an ambitious yuppie brings him back to life...
After many attempts to destroy Robocop, Dick sends his gang after Weller with space-age army rifles that can destroy Volkswagon vans in one shot. The climactic battle that ensues in a closed-down steel mill is exciting and original in a movie genre replete with a thousand cliches and tricks. In the end, Robocop tracks down Dick in his corporate headquarters, which is guarded by a hilariously inept robot-tank which looks like a sumo wrestler...
Despite the dogs' bloody reputation, owners such as Laue insist that purebred pit bulls have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30 years ago, notes Ed Almeida, a dog trainer in El Monte, Calif., the Doberman was the most vicious of dogs. Now, he says, after years of careful breeding, Dobermans are "big boobs" compared with the pit bulls...
...suburbs, especially in the early '60s." So speaks the woman who looks back on her years of growing up in a comfortable Long Island fringe of New York City. What she remembers is excitement, that night long ago during her early adolescence when Rick Slater and a gang of his teenage friends drove up to a house across the street and tried to free Rick's girlfriend Sheryl from presumed imprisonment by the men in the neighborhood, including the narrator's father. None of the combatants realized that they fought over deserted ground. Sheryl, discovering she was pregnant, had been...