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...real problems with the film lie elsewhere: in the chilly, self-conscious sleekness of its production design, in the heartless and relentless thrill seeking of Paul Verhoeven's direction, in the too intricate, not entirely persuasive plotting required to create an alternate suspect, a police psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn) who truly loves Douglas. Finally, the film breaks faith with the most inviolable convention of the whodunit -- refusing to state firmly which of the two women dunit (notwithstanding gay activists' confident naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance...
...Teeter, the 1992 campaign is shaping up like a recurring nightmare. It was 16 years ago that Teeter, serving as Gerald Ford's campaign pollster, watched while the incumbent Republican President came under relentless attack from a more conservative Ronald Reagan. Although Ford eventually won the nomination, he was badly damaged by the intramural fight and went on to lose a close general election to Jimmy Carter...
Tonight, Dartmouth invades Briggs Cage like a relentless, loudmouthed, plaid-coated, vacuum-cleaner salesman pounding on the door of a bereaved family...
...just decided to get relentless with my strategy and wear her down," Fraiberg said...
...according to Juliet Schor's impressive new book, The Overworked American (Basic Books; $21). A Harvard economist, Schor charts the relentless expansion of American work and the steady erosion of leisure time over the past 20 years. It turns out that the average U.S. employee puts in 163 more hours a year now than in 1970. And while it is true that Japanese manufacturing workers put in six weeks' worth of hours more every year than their U.S. counterparts, they do it by working six-day weeks and skipping most of their vacation time. Meanwhile, Americans are laboring eight weeks...