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...graduation, fantasizing about what it's like to have a girlfriend, he gallops his way into our hearts. Although his altruism and sincerity may be occasionally overemphasized. Rocky's inveterate likeability serves the purpose of convincing us that he is no different from anyone else. Rocky comes Bogdanovich's modern-day Everyman whose adolescent trials and tribulations are magnified by an unfortunate accident of birth...
...biblical assurance that "with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53: 5). Instead of throwing drumsticks into the audience, these metal missionaries toss out about 500 imitation-leather copies of the New Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message...
...film features Hutton as a modern-day Robin Hood bent on redeeming the good name and reputation of his brother Terry (Robert Urich). A likeable if marginally nutse firefighter. Terry is injured while combatting a fire during his off-duty hours. Because he was slightly inebriated at the time, the city deprives him of his pension and disability payment, now sorely needed to cover escalating medical bills. Jimmy, whose sole occupation appears to be shooting baskets and slouching around the streets of Brooklyn, takes it upon himself to fight the entire municipal administration...
...escalators. Jahn also sees a democratic statement in his plaza and concourse, where a theater, shops and restaurants will bring rental income to the state while ensuring that this is a government office center that goes on living after 5 p.m. "The building ends up as a modern-day crystal palace," says Jahn. "But at the same time it is a people place...
Suggestions that Nancy is grabbing for power, determining policy like a modern-day Edith Wilson, make the President peevish. Says he: "A part of the false image-making has been to suggest that she is some dominant force behind the scenes." She is uncomfortable discussing the nature and extent of her influence. "I read that I make decisions and I'm the power behind the throne, and that I get people fired," she says. "I don't get people fired...