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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola...
Instead, one suspects, Coppola wants the moviegoer to shout, "Hey, what's that?" If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style. As he did in his adaptation of another S.E. Hinton novel (The Outsiders), Coppola has taken the protagonist's point of view as his visual strategy. There it was Technicolor romance; here it is stygian monochrome. To the Motorcycle Boy, colorblind and partly deaf from too many fights, the world is "black and white with the sound turned low," and what he sees is what...
BORN. To S.E. (Susan) Hinton, 35, bestselling author of deromanticized novels for young adults (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish), and her husband David E. Inhofe, 35, mail-order businessman: their first child, a son; in Tulsa, Okla. Name: Nicholas David. Weight...
...White House official noted acerbically, "You don't handle Central American policies with tea and crumpets on the diplomatic circuit." Shultz and Clark cut a deal: in return for firing Enders, the Secretary of State would be given day-to-day control of Central American policymaking. Deane Hinton, the able Ambassador to El Salvador, was also fired as part of the bargain...
Shultz accepted Clark's choice of a replacement for Enders, L. Anthony Motley, and was prepared to acquiesce in his choice of a retired admiral, Gerald Thomas, to replace Hinton. But senior members of the Foreign Service, led by Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger, balked at the appointment, claiming it was an insult to the department's professionals. Shultz eventually prevailed in placing a career diplomat, Thomas Pickering, in San Salvador, but the Secretary's pliant attitude served to reinforce the image of State Department weakness...