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After that first shift though, the Tulsa team and its coach, Butch Kaebel, discussed the situation with Commissioner M. Thomas Berry, Jr. With the agreement of Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees—Tulsa’s opponent for the night—Ruggiero was allowed to return to the ice in the third period...
Carpenter, from the first generation of film-school babies, was fusing two favorite old movies: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, with Sheriff John Wayne and his ragtag deputies holding off a jail raid, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which the zombies attack a house in a cemetery and just keep on coming. He also laced his movie with references to Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Sergio Leone movies. As he did in his next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year...
DIED. PHILIPPE DE BROCA, 71, director of frenetic film comedies of France's New Wave; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A onetime assistant to François Truffaut, he made dozens of films over five decades but gained most acclaim in the 1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
Your Notebook item "Bordering on Nukes" [Nov. 22] reported on al-Qaeda's possible plans to smuggle nuclear material into the U.S. from Mexico. Not to worry. We'll take them out at the Rio Grande with one of those billion-dollar antimissile defense rockets recently installed in Alaska. They can't seem to hit many test targets, but surely one rocket could hit a terrorist driving a pickup across the border. Couldn...
...Several other models are standouts: the Rio Forge ($139 for 128 MB, $169 for 256 MB or $199 for 512 MB) is a 7.5-cm-wide, disk-shape player with a rubberized rim and a slot for adding up to 1 GB of extra memory. JetAudio's iAudio U2 is one of the only flash players with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and comes in a jazzy red ($149 for 256 MB) and cool blue ($199 for 512 MB). And the upcoming Rocbox ($160 for 256 MB) from Roc Digital, a new company formed by hip-hop and fashion mogul...