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Next stanza: In the Line of Fire, a just-above-par melodrama about a Secret Service agent haunted by having botched his protection of John F. Kennedy nearly 30 years ago in Dallas and now assigned to shield the current President from a would-be assassin. Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) is your basic borderline burn-out with questionable social skills. He's a beast from the past, Clintosaurus rex, who believes that the things he knows about people will compensate for his diminished physical resources. His opponent, Mitch Leary (John Malkovich), is your basic twisted genius, a rogue warrior with dead...
...heart, though, In the Line of Fire is a conversation between two sides of a smart, troubled mind. In a series of phone chats, Leary toys with Horrigan, hovers like a dark angel or a guilty conscience, lets the agent see his fun- house mirror image in an assassin's paranoid logic. Why kill the President? "To punctuate the dreariness." At the end of the cold war and the American century, Leary says, "there's no cause left worth fighting for. All that's left is the game. I'm on offense; you're on defense...
...public condemnation that the students whowrote the article have received is the right wayto handle the issue," said Courtney Horrigan, athird-year law student. "Putting up the 'wanted'posters and making them look like criminals went abit...
...Ross Johnson, the firm's chief executive, and Edward Horrigan, its vice chairman, an RJR Nabisco bid would take the firm private. The two men, who hold hefty chunks of RJR Nabisco stock, stand to make nearly $18 million each on the deal. While they will probably invest most of their profits in the new firm, that will do little to ease a projected $25 billion debt burden. To pay off the IOUs, RJR Nabisco will probably sell some of its divisions. The proposed deal must still be approved by a group of the firm's directors, but even...
Despite recent sluggish sales, tobacco executives and cigarette-industry watchers believe the market will pick up as the recovery gathers strength and consumers become accustomed to the higher taxes. Says Horrigan of Reynolds: "We've bottomed out absolutely. We have a lot of strength." Cigarette-industry officials can only hope that Horrigan is not just blowing smoke...