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...LOVE. An infusion of wit and imagination raises this police film above the rank and file. One of New York's finest (Al Pacino) pursues a serial killer who is stalking womanizers; the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...same imaginative spirit animates his pursuit of a serial killer who is stalking womanizers (nice reversal of expectations there). Keller and his partner (John Goodman) place ads in the personal columns of an alternative newspaper and start dating the respondents. Needless to say, the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Policeman's Lot | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...November's elections with impassioned attacks on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, but failed to sweep Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney out of office. Last week, conceding the need for "fresh leadership," Turner said he would resign after a date is set to choose a successor. Likeliest prospect: Quebec's Jean Chretien, a former Justice and Finance minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Good-Bye to All That | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Federal aviation investigators had not determined the cause of the hole, but were leaning toward structural failure as the likeliest explanation. Initial reports from the pilot and some passengers indicated they had heard an explosion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Passengers Killed as Plane Rips Open | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

...said he thought the "likeliest explanation" for the damage was stress failure, perhaps compounded by maintenance problems. The ripping away of the fuselage skin appeared to have occurred along rivet lines, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Passengers Killed as Plane Rips Open | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

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