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...hoped the very same thing three decades ago when an unknown Senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy stood on the Senate floor with his own set of dubious principles. The American public has the unfortunate ability to support a good measure of absurdity, so long as it wears the mask of good-old patriotic Red hunting...
...Aquino's campaign in the remote province of Antique, was sitting on the lawn in front of the capital building, taking a break from a debate over contested votes in his region, when a white vehicle pulled into the driveway. Without warning, a man in a black knit ski mask leaped out and started shooting. Javier jumped up and ran. Zigzagging across the building's broad concrete plaza, he tried to escape the relentless barrage of bullets. At least one hit its mark. Javier stumbled and fell into a small fishpond...
...elections had been marred by fraud, some bishops still shied away from stating their conclusions plainly. Said one of the conferees: "Talks collapsed several times because we were afraid of the term civil disobedience and because we did not want to appear partisan." But there was no way to mask their target. One bishop even went so far as to say that Marcos should be denied the right to receive Holy Eucharist...
Mark Jooris gave RPI its only lead of the game at 18:52 of the first period when his wristshot hit Bower in the mask and trickled into the net Bower was replaced momentarily in the goal by Tim Osby but returned to finish the game with 36 saves. The Green outscored RPI 3-1 in the second period to take a 4-3 lead into the third...
During the nine-month wrangle with Universal, Gilliam, a Monty Python alumnus who directed the 1981 surprise hit Time Bandits, felt as forlorn as his hero. The studio, which had just emerged from a noisy battle with Director Peter Bogdanovich over the cutting and scoring of his film Mask, demanded in March that Gilliam reduce his 2-hr. 22-min. Brazil, already in distribution in Europe, to the contracted 2 hr. 5 min. (The average running time for the last 25 winners of the Best Picture Oscar is a leisurely 2 hr. 26 min.; Universal's only other Christmas release...