Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie does become infinitely more interesting when Arnold enters the scene. Before Arnold, Connie encounters all kinds of sleazes, but he's both her first, and her first psychotic. And as you watch Arnold smooth-talk the diffident Connie into submission, he seems like a sinister cross between Jack the Ripper and Huey Long...
...BEGINNING of Legend, the king of the wood elves tells Jack, the forest boy (Tom Cruise): "You can't expect to disrupt the order of the universe and not pay the price." The "price" here refers to the rest of the movie, a slipshod amalgamation of trolls, witches, ugly bat-like things and one-eyed executioner types that belong in pro wrestling. Sad to say, Legend is too high a price for even the fantasy flick lover...
Enter the hero. As a gesture of friendship, Jack takes his princess girlfriend Lilly (Mia Sara) to see a pair of mystic unicorns, the keepers of the light of the universe without which the sun could not rise. As usual in this sort of drama, it's the girl who gets the plot going. Intoxicated by the beauty-and muscularity?--of these beasts, Lilly unwittingly leads them into a trap set by one of Evil's assistants. One unicorn down, one to go. And the cosmic order has officially been screwed...
...Although his Administration supporters tried to quiet the political uproar, Bush's potential rivals for the 1988 nomination helped keep him on the hot seat. "I certainly think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked for his comments on Bush's predicament, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole declared, "I don't believe in throwing an anchor to a drowning...
Clearly rising above the general adequacy is Miller, whose combination of verbal and athletic dexterity makes Jack Point at once the most convincing and most entertaining figure in the show. Whether leaping and somersaulting across the stage or acting the mock-Shakespearean trickster Gilbert envisioned Point to be, Miller possesses the vibrancy necessary to ignite the show...