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...Chinese Students Association will present a performance of the martial art Tai Chi in Sanders Theater...
Precisely because of this embarrassing possibility, the Navy assigns Lieut. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise, proving again that a really cute guy can also act really acutely) to defend them at their court-martial. Kaffee's life is all softball, brewskies and smart remarks -- evasions of his grownup responsibilities, his large lawyerly talents and the long shadow of his great- man father. To him, principles are merely things that interfere with cozy plea bargains. He is, in fact -- neat balance here -- an upmarket version of this case's victim, a goof-off in need of some kind of Code Red himself...
Abuse is a mild term for the torture that parents inflict. When he went on trial for murder last August in Olympia, Washington, Israel Marquez, 17, recited a litany of abuse that began when he was seven years old. His stepfather, a deputy sheriff and martial-arts expert, liked to punch him in the chest and slap him on the head. When he went through a bed-wetting period between the ages of seven and 12, the stepfather beat him with a 2-in.-wide belt. After hearing the boy's tale, the jury found Marquez guilty of the reduced...
...Clouds." My Nation Underground (1988) was more of the same, although a little uneven. "Charlotte Anne" (say it fast) presents a sadder, gentler Julian, singing "The sound you bring is an antiquated thing/ So please don't look to me for guidance" over airy keyboards and a martial beat. The inclusion of the string-sodden "China Doll" is inexplicable...
...away and replaced it with the heavier mantle that bore the title "genius." The fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial, monosyllabic and scatological. No less a personage than former Secretary of State George Shultz, now penning his memoirs at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus, says, "I have come to admire him as a great intellect...