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...Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect in the caverns under Chinatown...
There has always been a certain legerdemain, if not hypocrisy, in Reagan's professed personal values. He preaches productivity and rugged individualism, but has always been something less than a workaholic. He preaches the sanctity of family, but is the only President to have been divorced. His relations with his children seem to have been distant and somewhat troubled. He allies himself with religious Fundamentalists for political advantage, but rarely goes to church. Such inconsistencies are human enough. They point a little, however, toward a window onto the uglier side of Reaganism, if not Reagan, the side where some...
AIDS breeds panic and paranoia wherever it strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
...Great Society too much, he wanted to win both the War on Poverty and the war in Southeast Asia. And Johnson's problem remained America's problem for years: the nation somehow never quite squarely looked at Viet Nam and asked itself what it was doing there. A certain legerdemain was the official style of Viet Nam. Americans deliberately tried to fight without stirring up war passions at home--with the result that the passion, when it came, was one of revulsion. The Americans tried to fight a "limited war." The Vietnamese Communists were fighting an absolute...
Growing up, Bird was not much aware of the N.B.A., either at seven or 17. He never thought to watch Elgin Baylor perform his legerdemain for the Los Angeles Lakers. When Bird joined the Celtics at 22, six years ago, he knew nothing of Boston Coach Bill Fitch, who had toiled in the league for nine seasons. So no sentimental memory inhibits Bird's self-assessment, just a typically restrained presumption that "people probably tend to forget how good players really were. I'm definitely one of the top ones today, but calling anyone the best ever is too harsh...