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...segment of the German population. A government-sponsored study showed that 13 percent of Germans over the age of 18 consider themselves extreme right-wingers. That population, according to the survey, believes that the majority of journalists should be put in jail and considers foreign workers to be a mortal threat to the German nation. Even more disturbing, the survey found that the majority of the group yearns for a leader who could unify the nation as effectively as did Adolf Hitler...
Though Platoon is a breakthrough, it is not a breakaway. The film is traditional enough to connect with a mass audience. In its story line it holds echoes of Attack!, Robert Aldrich's 1956 psychodrama, in which a World War II infantry company is torn by a mortal struggle between two officers -- one messianic, the other deranged -- while a young man's loyalty hangs in the balance. Platoon's narration, in the form of Chris' letters to his grandmother, is often as stilted and redundant as silent-movie title cards. When a naive new boy shows Chris a photo...
...boycott and protect us from other debased and debasing junk in our culture. Otherwise, we have a right to conclude that they are not serious, just a bunch of effetes moved by nostalgia, snobbery and fear. A Puritan, goes the old joke, is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is having fun. A Hollywood Puritan is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is watching Ingrid Bergman blush red in Rick's Cafe...
Boesky, known for the last four years as the country's most powerful arbitrageur, is now also known as the largest offender of his profession's mortal sin, insider trading...
...recommendations for education and prevention may encounter resistance. In the view of the Roman Catholic Church, for example, a Government campaign to urge use of condoms would be encouraging people to commit mortal sin. The church regards condoms as artificial contraceptive devices whose use, even to avoid lethal disease, is forbidden. In the view of the NAS panel and Surgeon General Koop, however, action must no longer be delayed. AIDS researchers have faced an exquisite dilemma: they initially felt obliged to calm public hysteria stirred by the false idea that AIDS can be spread by casual contact...