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...critics' groups, is an eloquent example of Simenon cinema -- the kind of movie that, in the manner of Georges Simenon's novels, treats melodramatic subjects with clinical dispassion. Chabrol never coddles viewers; he trusts them to sort out the evidence. His Marie is too complicated to be either a monster or a savior. And Huppert's beautifully deadpan performance finds the ideal emblem for Marie, a vessel empty of everything but human contradictions...
Bush never wanted a new plane. Ronald Reagan never asked for one either. This was a classic case of creation by consortium: a dozen or so offices and agencies doing their jobs as best they know how. Nobody looked up and saw that their individual efforts had created a monster...
...Harvard hockey faithful, Melrose will be mythologized as the bruising enforcer whose monster checks and willing fists intimidated opponents and protected teammates. To fans at road rinks, he will be remembered as a goon...
BILLY JOEL: STORM FRONT (Columbia). A monster hit album, with Joel's crazily ! catchy buzz-word history of the past 40 years, We Didn't Start the Fire, plus nine other effortlessly obnoxious ditties that take on such subjects as glasnost and the plight of Long Island fishermen. The musical equivalent of a sociology lecture by Ralph Kramden...
...people feel a sense of peace knowing thatthe monster is leaving our land," said PanamanianPresident Guillermo Endara, frequently a target ofNoriega's thugs...