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...options. "In Crimson Tide," says Lebenzon, "there's a scene out in the rain where the guys are being addressed by Gene Hackman for the first time. There was so much film on that and so many ways to go. In a way it was a very traditional General Patton scene, but I slammed into these big close-ups from wide shots. It somehow became very effective at crucial points...
Many tobacco executives swore otherwise when testifying before Representative Henry Waxman's health subcommittee in 1994, but consistency has never been central to the industry's legal defense--overwhelming force has. As RJ Reynolds lawyer J. Michael Jordan put it in a 1988 memorandum, "To paraphrase General Patton, the way we won those cases was not by spending all of Reynolds' money but by making that other son of a bitch spend all his." Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone...
Speaking by telephone from a bullet-pocked control tower, Air Force Colonel Neal Patton, who has been in charge of installing runway lights and precision navigation equipment and otherwise getting the field ready, expresses confidence that it can handle the planned traffic. But he adds, with a laugh, "We're going to go to church to pray for better weather." Snow and low ceilings last week caused several flights either to be held on the ground at the Ramstein air base in Germany or to circle Tuzla fruitlessly and go back, unable to land. The miserable conditions do have their...
...congressional elections, G.O.P. candidates won by running against Bill Clinton. This year the bogey man is the increasingly unpopular House Speaker. In the Nov. 7 Kentucky Governor's election, Democrat Paul Patton won largely by selling himself as a defender of the weak against Newt the serial program killer. Now in California's 15th congressional district Gingrich has become a target of opportunity for Democrats trying to win a special Dec. 12 election to replace resigned Democratic Representative Norman Mineta...
...Kentucky, Democrat Paul Patton won a narrow victory over Republican Larry Forgy, while Mississippi's Republican incumbent Kirk Fordice trounced his Democratic opponent Dick Molpus in one of the day's few bright spots for the G.O.P...