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This is partly a matter of image. Goodman has become our designated Everyman, a Ralph Kramden for the '90s but without the splenetic splutter of Jackie Gleason's immortal creation. An intelligence, a sensitivity he can't quite articulate, just possibly a slight sadness, lurk behind Goodman's eyes, and they ground everything he does in reality. Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect. It is hard to insert their screen personas into the kind of normal, middle- class lives they are supposed to inhabit here. They require highly...
...even in private will a patriotic Soviet finish that thought: the Weimar Republic gave way to Hitler's Third Reich. Yet that is what some Soviets seem to have in mind. They fear not only the worst from Germany's past but also something just as bad that may lurk in their own future. These twin dreads interact powerfully, if not quite logically. As Gorbachev at least tacitly acknowledges, in his country rationality is as scarce as soap these days. The outside world is a mirror into which Soviets look and wince...
...Lynch has a Boy Scout's cherubic face and nice manners. His conversation is filled with wholesome jargon like "thrilling" and "cool." But eccentricities lurk just beneath the surface. He always keeps his shirt collar buttoned to the top because "I have this thing about my neck. It's just an eerie kind of feeling about my collarbone." For seven years he drank milkshakes every day at a Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles. "I'd have coffee, sometimes six cups, along with the shake, and I'd have sugar in my coffee," he says. "By then I would...
...Madagascar's diverse but vanishing flora and fauna. One-quarter of Africa's plants exist only on Madagascar; more than 90% of the island's wildlife is unique. Agriculture has wiped out most of the forests and many animal species, including 14 types of lemur. Undiscovered species may lurk in the remaining jungle, but, warns Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, "unless their habitat is protected, they may all isappear...
...dumping out of a too carefully programmed engagement to a dull girl. Spader, an awfully good actor, accomplishes the rare trick of making the good weak guy seem more interesting than the strong bad guy. In fairness to Lowe, however, he is not given much to do but lurk in the shadows and look menacing as he stakes his claim on a bedazzled soul. Alas, Bad Influence never persuasively explains why cautious Michael would let an obviously devious character like Alex so far into his life so quickly without checking his references. It is too busy putting on airs...