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...helped if the good name was accompanied by a serve that sprayed aces and by ground strokes that delivered tennis balls with laser-like precision deep into his opponent's backhand. In fact, his game was the antithesis of his public persona. It was the fire that flowed out from behind an impassive mask and through his fingertips. In John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game, Davis Cup teammate and occasional opponent Clark Graebner described Ashe's game: "He comes out on the court and he's tight for a while, then he hits a few good shots...
...only it were so. Just when he wanted to focus "like a laser beam" on the economy, Clinton was sidetracked for five days by a once obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse...
...VIDEO On laser disk, a skull-busting animated sci-fi film...
With the very first scene, all the huggy-warmy feelings usually associated with animated features take a nose dive. This futuristic movie on laser disc is a virtuoso piece of speculative fiction, a violent adventure tale, a head- bending sci-fi morality play and a venture into the higher realms of animation art that kicks all the squishier conventions of the genre right in their well-upholstered butt...
...deep night and lurid neon that looks like Blade Runner on spoiled mushrooms. It's no wonder that Akira, first released in Tokyo in 1988, is still playing the midnight-movie circuit in U.S. theaters. So far, it's not available on videotape either, which is fair enough. Laser disc -- with its superior sound and resolution -- can put Akira right behind your eyes. Watching it on tape would be like trying to get the full experience from a flip-book...