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Mayor Richard Daley's front-line forces in Chicago must have been chosen for immovable heft, men built like trucks. Now they silently palm-smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...
...Second-unit ingenuity spurs a destructo-fest, as naughty tornados send cars crashing and rip the roofs off barns. One suspects that, as a movie monster, this killer twister may be a dud: it has no personality and can't sneak up on you. But with the heft of Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and Jan de Bont (Speed) behind it, Twister could suck hot air and still gross a quick $100 million...
...children when we declare that the new Disney film of James and the Giant Peach is an improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy. Director Henry Selick and his team of screenwriters (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom) and technical specialists have given the story balance and emotional heft. Mixing stylized live action with stop-motion animation, they have reconciled the tale's realistic and surreal elements and, in five sprightly Randy Newman tunes, made the story sing...
...TAKES ONLY A GLANCE AT THE REV. Al Sharpton to know that he is a man of considerable heft. What the rotund rabble rouser from New York City would like you to conclude from his autobiography, Go and Tell Pharaoh (Doubleday; 270 pages; $23.95), is that he is also a fellow of considerable substance. If only his critics could "look at me as a man and a person," he proclaims, they would realize that his racial grandstanding, inflammatory rhetoric and alleged corruption have been part of "an effort to live the gospel." By his own estimation, Sharpton has emerged...
BOOKS . . . GO AND TELL PHARAOH: "It takes only a glance at the rev. Al Sharpton to know that he is a man of considerable heft," says TIME's Jack White. "What the rotund rabble rouser would like you to conclude from his autobiography (Doubleday; 270 pages; $23.95), is that he is also a fellow of considerable substance." With the aid of his collaborator, Anthony Walton, he casts himself as a sort of 'Sharpton Lite.' He writes with calculated candor about aspects of his life that can be counted on to spark empathy -- for instance, his early career as a traveling...