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...Warren Beatty, Hollywood's most distinctive producer- star, scores after a long dry spell with a gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking...
Canny corporate raiders know there is more than one way to fell an obstinate opponent. Throughout the 1980s the knockout blow was typically delivered in a high-stakes takeover battle, with much fancy legal footwork and powerhouse debt financing. But in recent months the collapse of the junk-bond market and the passage of anti-takeover laws in more than 30 states have forced a switch in tactics. Now the savviest challengers are clambering back into the ring with an old-fashioned approach to kayoing corporate management. The new arena: the annual stockholders' meeting. The main event: the proxy fight...
...battleground in Panama, however, a far less optimistic drama was unfolding. Confounding Pentagon hopes that Noriega's Panama Defense Forces would quickly crumble under a devastating U.S. onslaught, the fugitive dictator's men were preparing a determined counterattack. Instead of the quick and decisive knockout U.S. commanders had sought, the invasion was in danger of degenerating into a nasty street fight in densely populated Panama City. House-to-house fighting in a crowded urban area was something military planners were leery of because of the threat to civilians...
...even odder. At the age of 40, after a full ten years layoff from the ring and about 40 lbs. over his best fighting weight, the slugger is in training once again. His objective -- some call it an obsession -- is to recapture the heavyweight title he lost by a knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Exclaims the ex-champ: "I'm ready, and I'm better than I ever...
...passing of Sugar Ray Robinson, he might have been taken for an elder statesman of boxing, a figure of charm and standing. As a matter of fact, when Robinson made a Spanish omelet out of LaMotta in 1951, the New York Herald Tribune called it "the first believable knockout of ((Jake's)) life." LaMotta swears he never took a dive except the one against Blackjack Billy Fox, and that was so long...