Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beijing, where most of the carnage took place, citizens are not yet foolish enough -- or desperate enough -- to buy the government's line. But they are toeing it, as a sullen normality descends on the city. Although most of the tanks are gone, the streets still teem with helmeted soldiers, AK-47s poised at their sides. The handwritten broadsheets that served as a free press have been peeled from walls, but perhaps some cyclists are heartened as they spot one last declaration chalked on the Forbidden City: THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT OPPRESSES THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. It is impossible...
...Durham and Field of Dreams echo with the American and Hollywood past. They blend hip showmanship and a vigorous Saturday-matinee innocence. But they work for an audience because Kevin Costner is in them. Virtually unknown three years ago, he is one of the few actors people will consistently line up to see. Men like him, women love him; when he walks into a room or a movie, the wistful lust of female fans sticks to him like decals. His name above the title guarantees quality; each of his hit movies is honorable and ambitious. And each gains a magnificent...
Costner knows his strengths and limitations. "I can't fix my car," he says, "though I play characters who can. I can't work my computer. I don't understand certain financial things, though I'm really good with the bottom line. I flunked geometry twice. My mind just doesn't work like that. But I'm completely comfortable in this medium. I put in hard days, but I love every bit of it." He's also sensitive about what he considers his own physical limitations. "I don't think of myself as classically handsome. I've been told that...
...presence fills a room, though not in an ostentatious way." Yet he was often willing to torpedo his career to make a point. In Frances, one of his first movies, he risked not getting a Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what he deemed an inappropriate line of dialogue. When Oliver Stone asked if he wanted to play the Tom Berenger role in Platoon, "I didn't even meet with him," Costner says, "because my brother Dan had been in Viet Nam, and I was reluctant to do a film about something that had such impact...
...Quayle visited four Central American countries last week, promoted his usual hard line against Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega, and admonished right-wingers in El Salvador to abjure human- rights abuses. That his efforts received routine news coverage delighted his staff...