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...scenes from the history of the sword-and-sorcery genre, though Chloe Salaman is a lovely and spirited prin cess of this mythical realm. It must be said that the uninspired stretches throw the film's magical moments into high relief. The final confrontation between Richardson and the rude beast, a confrontation in which Galen finally rises from apprentice to journeyman in the dragon-slaying game, is grippingly orchestrated. The sequence is as well made and exciting as anything one is likely to encounter in a summer already crowded with good work by those modern Merlins, the special-effects...
Some consumers are undoubtedly abandoning their local banks because of what they consider to be rude or indifferent service or hard-to-correct computer errors. In California, class-action suits have been filed against six leading banks on the grounds that they are gouging customers by charging up to $10 for handling checks drawn on insufficient funds. Some claim that the service actually costs the banks less than $1 a check. Many bank customers have learned that the old financial catchall, "The check is in the mail," has been replaced by a new one, "The computer lost your deposit...
...Cultural Revolution and rude Red Guards dismissed the traditional Chinese virtue of civility as "bourgeois hypocrisy." But now the Chinese are being encouraged, via government-sponsored organizations like the Polite Language Study Group, to revive a "socialist spirit of comradeship, warmth and concern for others...
...Zimmer did show up at the ballpark yesterday in a ten-gallon hat ("I'm probably the world's fattest cowboy"--Zimmer), but it wasn't even his. And while the 26,000 fans gave the man who really does look like a gerbil a rude welcome. Zip held court for over an hour, talking to reporters and broadcasters in the Texas dugout...
Hyten adds, however, that Harvard can be an uncomfortable place for a ROTC cadet. "If you walk through Harvard Square in uniform, a lot of people make rude comments, like 'Oh, off to kill babies?' You're spit at a few times, but you get used...