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...nearly perfect life is abruptly cut short in a tragic racing accident. But Furlong doesn't die in 1991. He and the rest of the film are transported to 2009, where bounty hunter Vacendak (Mick Jagger) awaits Furlong's arrival to take his body to its new owner, corporate mega ruler Ian McCandless (Bob Hopkins...
...Bush's mega-supersonic 340-foot yacht is a populist nightmare. He should sell it, buy a scuzzy old rowboat, and give the rest of the money to charity. What could be a better "photo op" than George rowing himself and Barbara into the Atlantic Ocean for a rustic fishing outing...
Discovery Zone has sold 120 outlets in the past 14 months, boasting sandboxes full of brightly colored plastic spheres, mazes, mats to bounce on, obstacle courses, moonwalks, slides and mountains to climb. Now mega- franchiser McDonald's is getting into the act. The burger giant is test- marketing a new playground, Leaps & Bounds, in Naperville, Ill. Phys Kids of Wichita has opened one center and has plans to expand...
...West Coast branch of the Kremlin." Limbaugh, a rock-ribbed skeptic, believes that reports of the death of Soviet communism have been greatly exaggerated. A "Gorbasm" is the sound people make when hailing Mikhail Gorbachev -- "and of course every Gorbasm is fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk" (to guarantee which Limbaugh once placed a condom over his microphone) and may get a "caller abortion." They are cut off, with vacuum-cleaner noises and a woman's scream in the background...
...wonder we enjoy seeing the human body being shredded, quartered, flayed, filleted and dissolved in vats of acid. It let us down. No wonder we love heroes and mega-villians like RoboCop and the Terminator, in whom all soft, unreliable tissue has been replaced by metal alloys. Or that we like reading (even in articles deeply critical of the violence they manage to summarize) about diabolical new uses for human flesh. It's been, let's face it, a big disappointment. May as well feed it to the rats or to any cannibalistically inclined killer still reckless enough to indulge...