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High Tide's Lilli (seething enigmatically under the tight rein of Judy Davis' performance) is quite like Judith Hearne. Rootlessly she ranges the Australian provinces as another sort of fringe musician, backup singer for an Elvis imitator. She too drinks, and though she will indulge in desultory sex, it is not a high priority with her. Most important, she too is presented with a last chance to turn her life around -- to reveal her identity and reclaim her long-abandoned daughter Ally (the soberly lovely Claudia Karvan...
...mayor combines the human compassion of the old politics with the progressive social conscience of the new. The result is a man well able to rein in either the business-boosting right or the technocratic left. Al Vellucci is back in charge--the city's in good hands...
...crowds during his ten- day U. S. tour were sometimes surprisingly thin, and his speeches were sometimes wooden, but John Paul left behind the clearest statement yet of his desire to rein in an unruly American flock. A "good Catholic," he declared, is not free to follow his own conscience in place of the traditional moral teachings of the church...
...Reiner will rein in the facetiousness; it will heighten the adventure, not bury it. His last film, Stand By Me, was suffused with such yuppie winsomeness that today's generation of teenage boys could use it as their fathers had used copies of The Prophet: to impress girls with their sensitivity. Here, liberated by parody, he remints visual cliches, like the gloriously fake matte paintings of fairy-tale realms, and they are funny- lovely. As for the Princess Bride, she is flat-out lovely. Wright's grave blond beauty makes her the wedding-cake figure around which all the movie...
...range missiles, the Soviets are warning of a new round of the arms race in the more important arena of strategic weaponry. With that stick -- and with the carrot of the deep cuts they have conditionally agreed to in START -- the Kremlin is hoping to induce the Administration to rein...