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Dukakis' revulsion at political corruption descended to details from the outset. He boasted to his constituents, in the year Kennedy died, that "I haven't fixed a ticket." But others in the state were constantly fixing things -- a truth dreadfully confirmed for him in 1970, the year he lost his race for the lieutenant governorship. A boozy young driver with Irish political connections hit a campaign car accompanying Dukakis' own from a TV station. When Dukakis rushed to the hospital and saw one aide's head all bloodied, the normally controlled candidate fainted. That aide recovered, but another...
Most gardeners, at the outset, seem to think that their new passion is profoundly good for them and that the world would be not just a prettier but a healthier and better place if more people joined them in the out-of-doors. There is some theory to this: the smell of basil was long thought to strengthen the heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived...
...outset of the parliamentary election campaign, Mitterrand had tried to explain his "political opening" by saying that "it is not healthy to have a country governed by just one party. There should be other political families taking part in government." But less than two weeks later, the President was pleading for a Socialist majority. What had changed? The emergence, said Mitterrand, of a new threat to the "values of freedom, equality and respect for others." That danger, suggested the President, was implicit in the electoral deal struck in Marseilles between the xenophobic National Front and the mainstream conservative alliance...
...cardinal rule, he says, is not to accept percentages of net profit because there is never, ever, a net. Then he muses aloud about whether there could ever be such a thing as a successful film that did not make money and announces, solemnly, that there cannot. At the outset, Silver's character is pitching a violent prison film starring a "bankable" macho star. At the end, he and the Mantegna character are on their way to meet with the next executive layer for final approval...
MICHAEL J. Fox comes to this role with the disadvantage of having already established himself as the glib Young Republican Alex Keaton, who's forever offering us the secret of his success. The yuppie image of Fox's earlier roles biased critics against him at the outset. On the other hand, it has given Fox plenty of ammunition to flex his thespian (although rather slight bodily) muscles just enough to give an extremely convincing performance that both Siskel and Ebert admired. And it is quite admirable. Jamie Conway is a truly desperate soul, quite close to dulling his own smug...