Word: jacks
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Best Picture: Good Will Hunting. Aside from the hamminess Robin Williams always feels compelled to produce when presented with a serious role (somehow he manages to look sillier in movies like Dead Poets Society than in movies like Jack,) this is the movie of the year. The screenplay respects the audience's sensibilities, the characters are multifaceted and intriguing, and of course, it has some great shots of the Spare Change man on Mass. Ave.--blatant Harvard propaganda at its best. Not only does it have the only "poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks meets high-spirited...
This is what presidential candidate Jack Stanton tells his protege Henry Burton at the end of Primary Colors, a new film adapted from the best-selling novel by journalist Joe Klein; and it's the message we're left with after what amounts to an entertaining embellishment of the 1992 Clinton campaign...
...argument, although one that it is considerably harder to accept--at least for the young, inexperienced and idealistic--and one that she therefore spends less time developing. The real crux of Steinem's argument and the only persuasive aspect of it is simply an echo of the message of Jack Stanton: you've got to be a whore in order to change the world...
...Donald Wilson, who left the FBI in 1987, says he didn't trust the investigators in the case. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the slips have what may be Jack Ruby's phone number on them, as well as a reference to "Raul," who Ray claims was part of the conspiracy...
...TIME contributor Jack E. White says this latest evidencedoesn't ring true. "My guess is that this won't hold up," he says. "Why is this FBI agent coming forward now, after 30 years? Ray has never named Ruby as part of this, and there's no proof yet that Raul ever existed." There are plenty of reasons, White says, to believe that Ray did not act alone. But these slips of paper may not be among them...