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...repeat performance, but this time the Administration was more forthcoming. When Ronald Reagan walked into the press conference he called to discuss the denouement of the Achille Lauro hijacking, he was wearing a flesh- colored bandage on his nose. He opened with a jocular announcement: another cancerous growth had been removed, and "I can stand before you proudly and say my nose is clean...
...monitors were inspired by a 1977 Spiderman cartoon and introduced in New Mexico six years later. Now the contraptions are catching on. Oregon's Linn County is using ankle transmitters to enforce curfew restrictions on repeat drunk-driving offenders. Kenton County, Ky., employs the devices to monitor fathers under house arrest for not paying child support. Lake County, Ill., has ordered $51,350 worth of equipment in an effort to cut prison costs and relieve overcrowding...
...Human Animal. The Western variety, reports Donahue, suffers from the Judeo-Christian tradition. When the Talmud refers to God, "the endings are always masculine." In Roman Catholicism, Mary "derives her status from a male relative." Stained with sexism, flooded with hormones, prone to violence, the Animal seems doomed to repeat its self-destructive habits until Armageddon. Perhaps not. One wholesome, prematurely gray talk-show host has the courage to ask, Who are we? Why do we behave the way we do? And, most important, Can we change? Of course we can. All it takes is a little finger pressure...
Nine months later, the pressure to repeat is almost suffocating. Everybody gunning for the one-year wonderboy...
Home video's hit parade, of course, is not made up solely of theatrical clinkers. Big box-office winners nearly always repeat their success when they appear on cassette (usually four to six months after their theatrical debut). Current video chart-toppers, for example, include such 1984 hits as The Terminator and The Karate Kid. But well-publicized box-office disappointments often do nearly as well as the blockbusters. "Sometimes the best video title is a movie that has run in a number of theaters but had a mediocre response," says Reg Childs, president of distribution for Embassy Home Entertainment...