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...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...
...ruffle the seemingly unflappable Jero. Adams plays it just right: the piercing shrill of her voice could cause inner-ear disturbance and she cuts a very intimidating figure without descending to the level of parody. Even better is Marlon Riggs as Chume, who rants and raves hysterically with near-perfect comic timing...
UMass took a brief lead when Harvard's Chris Kimball (167 lbs.) lost his first varsity start, 4-3, on a takedown at the final buzzer. But Crimson grappler Sal D'agostino (177 lbs.) ran his near-perfect record to 12-1 with his ninth pin of the season...
Coach Mark Driscoll, commenting afterwards on his team's near-perfect season, said his players "hustled, and what more can a coach ask for?" Driscoll predicted that one or two of this year's J.V. players will start on next year's varsity squad...
...body of the movie with latent violence, he more than compensates for it in the final shootout--a rapid, graphic sequence of knives, bullets and blood, followed by a perversely loving, achingly detailed pan over the scene of the massacre. In this and in the epilogue, Scorsese achieves a near-perfect identification between his hero and his audience; like Travis, we have been aching for this release, and now that it has been granted, we're left cold, drained, and a bit removed from ourselves--like the denizens who haunt the all-night Bellmore Cafeteria...