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...woman. Here, a girl becomes a man. Mulan is the only child of a dutiful man tied to tradition. "I know my place," he tells his rebellious tomboy of a daughter. "It is time you learned yours." Her place, it turns out, is at the head of a ragtag platoon fighting Shan-Yu's Huns. This woman warrior will prove that the art of war is the smart of war, that one wins by cunning, not strength. And unlike most Disney heroines, she achieves her goal without much mentoring. As her sidekick, a spindly dragon named Mushu, proudly says...
...Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Down By Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch's extended character study (incorporating a few digs at Hollywood convention) is probably the funniest American movie ever made. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The cinematic codification of the obsession with youth that dominated postwar American pop culture. Platoon (1986). Oliver Stone takes us to the heart of the battle for the soul of the American male...
...Checchi, a leveraged-buyout wizard who has already spent $30 million on the primary, a record for a statewide campaign. Checchi's commercials have been blitzing viewers since November; he hired Bill Clinton's pollster, Ted Kennedy's media man, a cadre of 29 policy wonks and even a platoon of temps to cheer at one of his speeches. "Davis is destined to finish third," Governor Pete Wilson predicted late last month in an interview with TIME, "simply because he can't compete financially...
Junior Brett Vankoski, the Crimson's platoon designated hitter, made the most of his two at-bats by tagging two singles and driving in three runs. And Quinn Schafer, who was making his first start of the season and had pitched all of six innings entering the Beanpot, pitched four and two-thirds innings of two-hit, shutout baseball...
Although the departure of first baseman Pete Albers created the only question mark in the Crimson lineup, his replacements--the platoon of sophomores Binkowski and Jason Larocque--have taken great strides toward filling Albers' shoes. The two went 5-for-13 over the weekend, tallying four RBI and playing errorless defense. Binkowski also hit his first collegiate home run Sunday off Bayer...