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...JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
...uses of power. Carlos' family connections and the Ph.D. he earned at Harvard in political economy and government assured him success. But in Mexico the path to power is politics, and politics means the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). By the mid-1970s Salinas was hustling up the ladder...
...JACOB'S LADDER...
...Rubin), which one fervently hopes is not going to set the style for the '90s. In other words, director Adrian Lyne has encapsulated the cliches of three decades in a single dreadful and hysterical movie. This may be of interest to film students, who can learn from Jacob's Ladder everything they need to know about how not to make a movie. But ordinary audiences are advised to pass...
...year from the once all-male post of senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson. It was a teasing tribute to a woman who was well known for beating the pants off men at their own game. For Howington, a striking 60, who began climbing the ad agency's ladder in Chicago in 1967, the key to success was to "be aggressive" and "think like a man." In 22 years, she says, she never turned to other women for professional support or advice. "I didn't think they had anything of value to share," she says. "There...