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...obvious from the moment she bounded onto the tarmac at a Buenos Aires airport that the years have taken none of the sass out of the indefatigable Isabel, who once earned a living as a cabaret dancer. Sporting a shiny brown leather coat, with a swatch of honey-blond hair falling over her right eye, she strode up to a group of Perónist party leaders, wagged an admonishing finger at them and declared, "Whoever misbehaves will get a spanking." Later, she continued jousting coquettishly with members of the Perónist National Council who had gathered...
Another artist of atrocity, Brian De Palma, took notes from the Hollywood siren too. Much of his cinematic vocabulary comes straight from the old masters: the razor-slick strategies of a Hitchcock murder sequence, the sass and spitfire of a Howard Hawks comedy, the swooping voyeurism of a Vincente Minnelli crane shot. Here De Palma applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns...
...grew up to be President, she bequeathed a toothy grin, piercing blue eyes and, as she put it, a "feeling for the underdog." To the rest of the nation, Lillian Carter-"Miss Lillian," as she was universally known-passed on a refreshing dose of down-home sass and straightforward irreverence. "There was really nothing outstanding about Jimmy as a boy," she once said of her successful firstborn, contending that Daughter Gloria, two years younger, was actually the smartest of her brood. And in 1976 she admonished her candidate-son Jimmy to "quit that stuff about never telling a lie." Lillian...
...been called 'nigger' only once in my life. There's very little anger in my humor." Pryor's movie characters show the resentment and vulnerability of the underdog; Eddie, in front of the cameras or away from them, is a hot dog, full of sass and guileless assurance. The Murphy analysis: "Richard's funny as the victim, but I'm funnier when I try to fight back. Maybe the star of the '90s will be the funny black guy who runs the show. It would be nice to see that progression...
...cause. Budapest. (Huh?) It would seem that what Jean-Luc Godard called the Coca-Colonization of Europe made an early conquest of Eastern Europe too, worming not just into jeans but into dreams. The ecstasy of fear flashes on a teen-ager's face as he dares to sass a sadistic teacher, and one can trace the punk-heroic contours of James Dean. Seven years after the Soviet-crushed revolution, Hungarian youths want only to escape, if not to America then into its music and attitudes. But escape is an adolescent fantasy; maturity comes to these engaging kids when...