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These speculations gain currency almost daily as Yeltsin reaches for ever more apocalyptic "red scare" metaphors. When the President says, "I cannot let the forces of the past come to power; I will resist their comeback in every way," his aides nod in agreement. "I know what it would mean for your Western view of democracy," says Georgi Satarov, a top Yeltsin aide. "But if there were a chance that Hitler would come to power in America by winning an election, wouldn't you be wondering if it wasn't right to stop that...
...inspector who races around in a 1970 Barracuda and combats the bad guys with tough talk ("I don't give a damn about you boys--but this guy, his ass is mine"), swift kicks and an occasional disabling spritz of WD-40 right to the eye. In a priceless nod to nostalgia, Bridges is played by TV's best-known exemplar of rose-tinted crime fighting--yes, Don Johnson...
...films nominated in this category are typically action films, which helped get Crimson Tide and Seven their nods, though they were not cited for Best Picture. It is also why this year's nod to Babe wins cheers even from a rival, Braveheart's Steven Rosenblum: "Groups like the Academy often don't recognize how well edited these quiet pictures are." Seven's Richard Francis-Bruce adds that the contemplative Il Postino deserved a mention for its deft matching of shots, within the same scene, of the ailing Massimo Troisi and his body double who appears in about half...
...Senator; former Missouri Senator John Danforth; and retiring Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. But anyone the party chooses will face spending limits, unless it is Perot, who by law can spend all he pleases on his own candidacy. That may be enough to decide who gets the Reform Party nod when it holds its convention in late summer. Don't be surprised if it's a scrappy little guy with a Texas accent...
...administration to make a list of 16 friends by the beginning of March. With these 16 people we will be sent out of our comfortable shelter in the Yard and into the world of upper-class houses. Of course, this is a problem every year. Wise seniors nod and respond, "Oh, the night before the blocking forms were due...well...it was quite a mess." However, something new arises for the class of '99, for whom the transitions seem to be particularly endless. Once we choose our 16, nine-, two-person group--whatever we can agree upon--we have...