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...Multiplicity," starring Michael Keaton and Andie McDowell, is launched from a simple (yet unbelievable) premise. But it is Keaton's manic style and a tolerably clever script that make...
...dear Lord!, you slam back down at negative gravity, your body pleading to soar through the restraints. Up and down you go a few more times in decreasing extremes. The whole thing, which lasts 31 sec., is a great, bearable kick. It's like experiencing, at warp speed, a manic-depressive attack. It is, one imagines, a lot like being inside Bob Stupak's head...
...course, represented the style of an older generation of parents, but her child rearing bore traces of the obsessive. Later American parents sometimes have a tendency to practice a retro-projection that amounts to a search for their own lost, sweet, brilliant, childish selves. They indulge in a manic idealization of their young; it is the obverse of child battering but sometimes has equally fatal effects. The idealization too savors of some indirect exhibitionism that, seen in a brutal light, comes just short of amounting to child sacrifice...
...Harvard baseball team had a not-so-manic Monday yesterday, splitting a doubleheader against the Ivy League-leading Penn Quakers. Penn (18-12, 9-3 Ivy) won the first game convincingly 8-1, but Harvard (11-9, 5-3) bounced back with strong pitching and solid defense to take the nightcap...
...MCDOUGALS' FORTUNES TOOK A VERY BAD TURN. JIM and Susan separated. Then McDougal suffered a heart attack, he was found to be a manic-depressive, and he was forced to step down as chairman of Madison Guaranty after banking regulators declared it insolvent. As the S&L crisis spread, Hillary and the litigation team at Rose realized that good money could be made representing the regulators in lawsuits involving failed thrifts. Many Rose partners opposed the idea of suing former clients on behalf of Washington, but after a series of acrimonious meetings, Hillary's view prevailed. But first Rose...