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Which is where Sid's brothers--the Unstrung Heroes of this movie's title--come in. They live behind multilocked doors, surrounded by tons of old newspapers, in a downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...Amato cautioned those who think Clinton will be an easy straw man to knock down...
...There's two roadblocks," Haggerty said. "First is health...knock' on wood, and the second would be Dartmouth...
...about TV violence--or at least concerned about taking a public stance on the issue--the V chip seems a neat solution to the problem of asserting parental control. "I think that with a hundred channels coming in the future, parents should be able to push one button and knock gratuitous violence out of their homes," said cable mogul Ted Turner at a recent press conference. Representative James Moran, a Virginia Democrat, says, "We're not suggesting this is a perfect solution. All we're doing is offering something to parents who have to be in the work force. They...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole traveled to Los Angeles to knock some of its pre-eminent citizens at a fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...