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...horny dork gets to drive the prom queen to distraction. The Breakfast Club, the new film from the writer-director of Sixteen Candles, John Hughes, is an even odder beguilement. A nine-hour Saturday detention class is called for five balky students: a jock (Emilio Estevez), a grind (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a deb (Molly Ringwald) and a feral cutie (Ally Sheedy) who eats Cap'n Crunch sandwiches and comports herself like a baby Maoist from May '68. They sit around and rank one another. They strike out, then strike bargains, then strike sparks of affection...
...high schoolers said they appreciated the change from their regular grind...
...private she may be astute Nancy Reagan, refining tactics and wheedling the President's men, but outside she is obliged always to play the First Lady, a serene and smiling public presence. The role may be a grand one, but it can get to be a grind. "Well, it is a job," she says, "which I didn't realize...
...Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played the Egyptian sting. Said he: "Don't you think that Mubarak is using the affair for his own ends? He has a special ax of his own to grind with Libya...
Mondale had been endorsed by every major union except the Teamsters, who opted for Reagan. After stumbling badly in the early primaries, Mondale relied on union money and muscle to grind down Gary Hart in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. "Without labor, we would not have been the nominee," admits one Mondale strategist...