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...sent voice and ends with Hathaway gloriously hoist on his own laser beam. The path between those two points leads through farcical situations, but the Animal House spirit is not present in this academic grove. Real Genius, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Peter Torokvei, is a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more fun, come from rubbing a few brains briskly together. --By Richard Schickel YEAR OF THE DRAGON...
West Point administrators concede that cadets are stretched thin. But, shrugs General Peter Boylan, commandant of cadets, "you can't become Spartan by living in Athens." West Point too often produces martinets, charge the academy's critics. However, acknowledges Joseph Ellis, a retired Army captain and former West Point instructor, "the Army can't very well have officers ordered to 'take that hill' respond, 'I gave this some thought while I was reading Melville last night, and I really...
...biotech companies' new emphasis on marketing has revived Wall Street's enthusiasm for their stocks. Genentech has risen from 34 to 49 since January, while Cetus has gone from less than 9 to nearly 16. Says Peter Drake, a biotechnology expert at the Kidder Peabody investment firm: "From an investor's standpoint, the industry is at a breakout point...
Keillor learned to harmonize when he was a boy singing hymns with his family, and he does a lot of singing on the show. Butch Thompson, who plays clarinet and barroom piano, and Peter Ostroushko, who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, are regulars on the show, and Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Scottish Folk Singer Jean Redpath, Fiddler Johnny Gimble and a great many others are irregulars. Keillor's tastes are dizzyingly eclectic, though he cherishes what he calls "an irrational distaste for banjos and a normal dislike of operatic sopranos...
...good feeling and continued prosperity, voters in last week's humdrum off-year elections thumped for the status quo. New Jersey's Republican Governor Tom Kean, who won by only 1,797 votes four years ago, crushed his young Democratic challenger, Peter Shapiro. In a state where just 20% of the voters identify themselves as Republicans, Kean won more than 70% of the vote and every major city and district. The G.O.P., hitching a ride on the Kean juggernaut, achieved a majority in the state assembly for the first time in more than a decade...