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...Evil (and, for that matter, good) should be something more than a spectacular design conceit. After the nice and not-nice E.T.s wow us with their first striking appearances, they have an obligation to grip us in slightly more profound ways. Although the cast, led by Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, tries hard, they don't make a deep impression. "Like everyone and everything else in this movie, Willis runs hard and fast and with a certain style," notes Schickel. "But neither he nor his director can entirely disguise the fact that they are essentially running on empty, that...
However, soccer has not been met only by gloom and ignorance. My roommates and I have been watching avidly for the return of Cameroonian star Roger Milla, who at 42 was placed on the team by government orders because of his immense popularity. We started kicking a ball around at the Business School with graduate students on weekends. And, yes, we watch Univision, the Spanish channel. They show all of the games and all of the injury time. Sure, the play-by-play is completely incomprehensible, but we just know that it's better than Roger Twibell's nonsense...
Abega works with an extremely talented front line boasting two stars of French First Division teams, Roger Milla and Gregory M'Bida...
...runneth over. After holding off the Peruvians, Cameroon's "untamable lions" repeated the performance against another respected contender, Poland. Dashiki-clad, singing, whistle-blowing fans from Cameroon cheered their team's offensive abandon. As Polish defenders frantically raced in front of the goal, Forward Roger Milla, instead of passing to an unguarded teammate as a normal soccer player would, kicked away, letting the ball carom off Polish bodies. No goal was scored, but such bizarre tactics stunned the Poles, amused the international press corps and mystified many Spanish fans...
Tiger went to work on a new road for the U.S. Army for more money than he'd ever seen before. He got started on a new brick house to replace the hut, made Ur-milla buy her first shoes and a new dress, invited his Army bosses to a rum-washed dinner. But he had taught himself to read, and now thoughts clouded his expanding horizons. What was life all about? Could he ever break away from his dreary existence? Could a colored ma~n ever get a break in a white man's world? He daydreamed...