Word: john
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...Gilliam's picture worth all the fuss? Sure, because he has tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling...
...export sales will help revive a depressed industry. Per capita beef consumption in the U.S. has fallen from 94.2 lbs. in 1976 to 72.7 lbs. last year. The Japanese investment should also be a boon for Americans who sell supplies and expertise to the new beef barons. Says John Morse, president of Selkirk Ranch: "The Japanese are willing to pay a premium for people who will raise beef the way they want to produce...
...Nunn, who believes that the tests of private relations and public life cannot be different simply because it is impossible to split a whole person in two, it was a painful admission. A few days before Nunn would lead the charge against John Tower on the Senate floor, the 50-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee sat in his office under the influence of two diet Cokes and finally confessed that he once stole some eggs from a neighbor who kept chickens...
...this adds up to a presidential run in 1992, it will not be the first time Nunn has clashed with George Bush -- or the second, considering that the fight over John Tower has been cast as a Bush-Nunn feud. In 1975, when President Ford selected Bush to head the CIA, Nunn and Senator Henry Jackson were concerned that Ford was helping Bush audition for a future vice- presidential race, perhaps even with Ford on the '76 ticket. "We felt strongly that the CIA shouldn't be used that way," says Nunn, and "we forced Bush to renounce his ambition...
...with the abundant talk of wine and women, the John Tower controversy last week could have had a song: Stand By Your Man. Tammy Wynette's paean of loyalty to hard-drinking, two-timing guys would have made perfect background music for George Bush as he pledged devotion to his apparently hopeless nominee for Secretary of Defense. But it could also have served as theme music for Republicans rallying around their wounded leader...