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Near midnight the first C-47 transport planes reached their objective near Cherbourg. Men snapped their rip cords over static lines, waited, crouching. The command came, and they leaped. White, yellow and red parachutes blossomed in the night. Men by the thousands floated down upon captive France...
...more dudes of Hazzard. Lottery$ (ABC) is The Millionaire after inflation. Two shows, Cutter to Houston (CBS) and Trauma Center (ABC), could be called The Mod Squad Goes to Med School. Manimal (NBC) is a menagerie of ripoffs, and It's Not Easy (ABC) is a rip-off of manages. We Got It Made (NBC) is Three's Company with a sex change...
Good performances, especially by Rip Torn and Dana Hill, play against the sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
...driven through the living flesh of people until they bled, or hungered, or died at random, until life became chaos. The spike had to be torn out or half China's people would perish. What is going on in China now is a great debate over whether to rip Mao Tse-tung entirely out of history, or whether to let what is left embedded of "Mao Thought" heal over...
BROWN 31, YALE 7-Yale tailback Paul Andrie, the Ivies' leading rusher last year, broke his arm in preseason practice. Brown quarterback Joe Potter will rip the Eli secondary to shreds. This will be the first of many Ivy upsets this year...