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...excellent right from the top, especially Ford as the ideal President, whose love for his family, integrity and courage (he earned a medal of honor in Vietnam) make him the perfect man to lead the free world--and that's before he reveals his ability to pack a powerful punch. On the ground, Glenn Close plays a cool and collected V.P. who has to deal not only with the crisis in the air but also with a power struggle with a Secretary of Defense who seems to have a problem with not being in control himself. There are other strong...
...great divider is Rand Araskog, CEO of ITT Corp., who will run ITT Destinations. He also unveiled a $2.1 billion, $70-a-share stock buyback. An exultant Araskog claimed victory, but by busting up ITT he merely beat Hilton to the punch. Says Bruce Turner, a managing director for Salomon Brothers: "His strategy happened because [Hilton CEO Stephen] Bollenbach came calling and there was no question what he would...
...probably would have noticed the spaceship coming. It may have been the noise the thing made that caught your attention; although the Martian atmosphere is spent and shredded, it's not too tenuous to carry sound. And it's certainly not too tenuous to make anything that tries to punch through it pay the price, causing the interloper to glow like a meteor as it plunged toward a touchdown somewhere on the ancient world. That you couldn't have missed...
...tenderness, there was a hint of the violent in Stewart's innocence. His first reaction to ridicule as Mr. Smith is to hunt reporters down and punch them out--until Jean Arthur's hardbought worldly wisdom is put at his service. The innocent is not good with words, so fists must serve--as Stewart shows when he tries to taunt the glib C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) into fighting him in The Philadelphia Story. Even saintly George Bailey terrorizes his own children before rushing out to do violence to himself...
Taylor's reportage packed a special punch because it was his November 1996 article in the American Lawyer that made the first persuasive case for taking Jones seriously. (He called her case stronger than Anita Hill's and blamed the media's disdain for her on class bias.) What followed was a stampede to Jones' side as journalists--who would rather be called anything other than elitists--repented mentioning her big hair and laughing at James Carville's line about the result of dragging "a hundred dollars through a trailer park." Suddenly, Jones was no longer a gold digger backed...