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...dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect in the caverns...
...with the noblest ideals that we coughed in your face not yet three inches ago. Did we say noble? Noble doesn't quite capture it. Honorable, glorious, mensch-like. Now we're getting there. But you get the idea...
...satiric power of Dixon's stories springs from his reversals of sexual stereotypes. His women tend to be aggressive, and his standard male character is at best foolishly romantic. Yet the final cycle of stories in this collection suggests that a wimp can turn into a mensch. For the first time in the Dixon canon his male character gets the girl. In the title story he actually marries her, in spite of an imagined, ironic commentary on his courtship by his late father. The story Wheels lovingly tells of the baby that is born of the marriage...
...Right Moves a hit on date nights this fall. Today's teen-agers may talk hip and move fast, but when it comes to movies, they still like their coal dust leavened with fairy dust. Stefan's dream comes true; the coach turns out to be a mensch; Lisa stands by her man. With Tom Cruise luring the girls into the theater, and high school machismo hooking the boys, this naive little movie hopes to prove itself the Flashdance of football...
...guess who'll win the elections. The Kennedy race doesn't merit an inch of newsprint; Dukakis over Sears by three percentage points; Weicker over Moflett: Moynihan by a landslide--it's pick 'em who'll do better. Kennedy of stormin' Pat--and my burn knee says Mario "the Mensch" Cuomo will down Law "my-suspenders-are-sewn-to-my-body' Lehman. In a week or two I'll put a out a line whether the Democrats can snag a Senate majority. The Greek is nodding...