Word: knocks
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...victims." But it was President Roosevelt who did nothing to increase the immigration quotas, and the State Department that refused to fill even those narrow quotas, and the U.S. Congress that rejected a measure to allow in 20,000 children. And when Jewish leaders pleaded for Allied bombers to knock out the railroad lines to Auschwitz, Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy responded, "I am very chary of getting the army involved in this...
...Showtime. Sam Kinison, a kind of defrocked evangelist of red-neck rage (and also, in spurts, funny), provoked the condemnation of gay spokesmen with his jokes about AIDS. On his new album, Leader of the Banned, Kinison declares that his motto is "family entertainment," then proceeds to put the knock on gays, Dr. Ruth, Jerry Lewis' "kids" and the worldwide female dictatorship. Family entertainment? Right: the Manson family...
...most potent arguments marshaled by defense contractors is that the cuts will turn American's military-industrial base into a Rust Belt, leaving the U.S. unable to supply its own defense needs. Some contractors contend, for example, that the cuts could knock them out of certain lines of business by driving away their suppliers. In one case, the Pentagon would temporarily end production of tanks at General Dynamics factories in Warren, Mich., and Lima, Ohio, then resume work by the end of the decade to make a new . generation of tanks. But General Dynamics argues that about...
After that, forget it. The plot, based on a true story, has a vengeful wife (Tracey Ullman) determined to knock off her philandering husband (Kline), but the fellow proves strangely indestructible. This sort of homicidal fable demands the stiletto of satire -- the very weapon flourished by Italian director Pietro Germi in his brilliant '60s comedies Divorce Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. But what played in Sicily for Germi doesn't work in Tacoma, Wash., for Lawrence Kasdan. This crime does not spring from the polluted mores of a medieval society; it is the private whim of an exasperated woman...
Action: A knock at the door of the jail. Guards, inmates and visitors swigging beer to celebrate the deputy warden's birthday are expecting a delivery of more brews. Surprise! Black-hooded renegades crash the festivities and escape with Billy Bibit...