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Senator Phil Gramm, for instance, expects to be a strong runner-up in Iowa and New Hampshire but to break away in the Sunshine State. "We've got to win Florida,'' says Senator Gramm's top strategist, Charles Black. Gramm's aides are meeting methodically with all 150 Republican clubs in the state; Dole's aides are setting up steering committees in every one of the state's 67 counties. Part of what motivates this courtship is that Florida's Republican convention in November will hold the largest straw poll, just over two months before any voting takes place...
...core of the problem for Colin Powell is that no matter which course his candidacy would take, either as a Republican-challenging the party's titular leaders and current front runner-or as an independent, the very act of his running would disrupt the settled pattern of American politics...
...superficial pleasures--like some clever production design and the splendor of a fight between two gorgeous women, Diane Lane and Joan Chen--Judge Dredd couldn't have worse timing. For one thing, it surfaces at the end of a 15-year line of dark sci-fi films; imagine Blade Runner inside a Tron video game. For another, the movie tries for the same combination of facetiousness and majesty that Batman Forever mined only two weeks before. Dredd, written by Michael De Luca, William Wisher and Steven de Souza, plays like an instant clone of the Gotham Gothic...
Among the best known Harvard names is Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, who was a close runner-up in the search for the Harvard presidency a few year ago. During Ronald Reagan's first term, Feldstein chaired the Council of Economic Advisors and got into several publicized battles with other members of the administration over the dangers of the growing deficit. The hundreds of undergraduates who take Feldstein's "Ec 10," usually the largest course at Harvard, will get a detailed explanation of why Marty was right, as well as a presentation of the basics of micro...
...passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe. The script, by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman, settles for the stale pose of antiheroic dialogue and TV sitcom irony. Barbara Ling's sumptuous production design is mainly a reminder of better, quirkier films (Blade Runner, The Hudsucker Proxy). The special-effects aces have created a big destruct-o-fest, with explosions all over Gotham, yet the film is pizazz deficient. A series of set pieces with no forward momentum, Batman Forever drags laboriously, as if the Batmobile were being towed away with the emergency brake still...