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...Democratic caucuses, what did not happen was more noteworthy than what did. No candidate scored a knockout blow, since first place finisher Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) won by only 4 percent. The failure of any candidate to separate himself from the pack signals that the race may go all the way to the convention...
...Republican. Bush handily tops Dole nationwide on the question of who has more experience and who would be good in an international crisis, but Dole gets higher marks for showing strong leadership. For the moment, the other four Republicans in the race are reduced to praying for a double knockout. In Iowa, none has more than...
...down apartment building, the half-hour series plays like a scrunched together episode of Bochco's Hill Street Blues without the violence. The premiere segment made some jarring missteps (a running gag about a policewoman trying to seduce a gay cop) and lunged too hard for the emotional knockout (Ritter bursting into tears over the death of his landlady). But the engaging Ritter is adept at both ends of the comedy-drama spectrum, and Hooperman has possibilities...
...what can be called the "muscle factor." Like novice sportswriters, they festoon their rhetoric with images denoting oomph. They strain to adopt positions that appear to be gutsy. Richard Gephardt promotes his restrictive trade policy with the argument that a "made-in-the-U.S.A." approach will "score knockout victories again." Free traders, he says, "lack backbone." Joseph Biden uses the America's Cup races as a metaphor for the nation's standing, then declares, "To say we want to compete means we are already losing. I want to win!" Paul Simon attempts to offset his meek image with...
...Onofrio seem sure shots for Oscar nominations); most important, the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking. Full Metal Jacket fails only by the standards the director demands be set for him. By normal movie standards, with whatever reservations one may entertain, the film is a technical knockout...