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Distancing himself from his new party's secessionist whims, Hickel hopes to ride a wave of discontent with Republican candidate Arliss Sturgulewski, a state senator who supports legalized abortion and opposes capital punishment. G.O.P. officials fear Hickel might win enough votes to hand a November victory to Democratic candidate Tony Knowles. But one Sturgulewski supporter, senate president Tim Kelly of Anchorage, shrugs off the Hickel-Coghill threat. Says Kelly: "You've got two old dogs who want to bay at the moon one last time, but their time has gone...
...condemned man had eaten a hearty meal, perhaps even two. But who picked up the check? And who took him on a one-way boat ride? For 42 years circumstantial evidence and plain common sense have pointed to agents of the ruling Greek Royalist Party, then conducting a civil war against communist guerrillas. The Polk Conspiracy supports this view. So why, after all these years, should one bother to read more about it? Because Kati Marton, in spinning a real-life thriller, brings fresh material and renewed outrage to < one of the fascinating stories of the cold war. She also...
...easy feat when that ride home is the long three hours plus it takes to travel back to Cambridge from Hanover, N.H., the site of this year's regional qualifying tournament for the ECAC championships...
Thus, Souter has enjoyed a relatively easy ride through the confirmation process. The invisible man from New Hampshire did sketch a vague self-portrait--carefully depicting himself as a moderate with an open mind--but avoided divulging his views on specific issues, most notably abortion...
Most Scorsese movies are all exposition. The characters don't grow or learn, they just get found out. Same, in spades, here. So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history. He has said he wanted his picture to have the speed and info overload of a movie trailer. Two great labyrinthine tracking shots -- at a neighborhood bar and the Copacabana -- introduce, with lightning grace, about a million wise guys. Who are they? What are they doing, and who are they doing in? Just to catch all the ambient...