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...whose short comedy Bedhead won prizes at 14 festivals, realizes that even splattered blood can get tired if there's no wit and bustle in the execution. His mentors -- Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Sam Raimi -- knew how to do it, and Rodriguez is a fast learner. Every shot (of an astounding 2,000 in the movie, about four times the average) is an aerobic workout for the eyes -- a delirious too much of a muchness...
...driving while intoxicated. In New York City last month, six youths were killed when the car in which they were riding went out of control while it was speeding late at night on a deserted street in the Bronx. The 18-year-old driver, who had only a learner's permit, had consumed more than twice the amount of alcohol required to qualify as legally drunk. In 1989, according to the National Traffic Safety Administration, 3,539 deaths in the 15-to-20 age group resulted from traffic accidents in which alcohol played a part...
...notably fast learner is Hartmut Issel, 19, deputy manager of the retail outlet of East Berlin's Cityback Bakery. Formerly part of a huge government- owned combine, the bakery has become a private corporation but is near collapse because almost all its former customers are locked into exclusive deals with Western suppliers. At one point, production fell from 50,000 loaves of bread a day to fewer than 15,000. "But our bread is just as good, and it's cheaper, so we opened our own shop here in the factory," says newly minted free-marketeer Issel. Customers have been...
Schluntz said he is not an expert at the"multi-flex" system of offense employed by HeadCoach Joe Restic, but that he promises to be aquick learner...
...spent another quarter-century blissfully AWOL from history. His press secretary, David Beckwith, calls the Vice President a "classic late bloomer" -- which means that the first three decades or so of his life do not matter, just the last decade. That is starting late even for a faster learner than Quayle has given evidence of being. How can he "rise to expectations" when the U.S. can expect all the troubles of a world coming out of the cold war, and when the person doing the rising came in with the cold war himself? That is why, for all the jokes...