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...breaststroke renewed the rivalry between Harvard's Mia Costello and Brown's Carolyn Ryder. Costello moved out to a large early lead, but a last-lap charge by Ryder brought the crowd to its feet. Costello hung on for the victory with a record time of 2:18.90, .60 of a second ahead of Ryder and two seconds below the NCAA and Olympic trial...
Knight-Ridder's move ends years of high-stakes poker and initiates a risky game of chicken. By placing the future of the Free Press (and its 2,200 employees) squarely in the lap of the Attorney General, Knight-Ridder is gambling that Meese will have no choice but to save the paper. To up the odds, the company has launched an all-out public relations blitz designed to win over local opponents and to sway Meese. After last week's board meeting, Chapman scheduled private meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young...
Graphic novels use, as the comics have for some time now, a whole battery of movie techniques. An artist like Miller or Dave Gibbons, who worked on Watchmen with Moore, can storyboard a zoom, a cross-fade, a jump cut or a lap dissolve with a deft immediacy that would beat many directors at their own game. Indeed, for anyone used to working the controls on a Laserdisc or VCR, freezing the frame or strobing the action, the expansive technique of graphic novels will seem comfortable and accessible...
...four days after Hart resumed his candidacy, network evening television gave him 39.31 minutes of coverage, while allotting George Bush and Bob Dole six minutes and Michael Dukakis less than three. Of course, as Hart anticipated, most editors trotted out the picture of Donna Rice sitting on Hart's lap, reported the anger and anguish of other Democratic candidates and quoted authorities who said he was unelectable. But once Hart shot up quickly in the polls, journalists stopped being so dismissive...
Hart's problems run far deeper than a simple desire to let loose of the bonds of mother and childhood. Anyone who has seen the infamous National Enquirer photos of Rice sitting on Hart's lap and a clearly blasted Hart playing the congas in a nightclub cannot have come away thinking they were looking at a happy or stable...