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Bernice (Goldberg) is out on parole, managing a bookshop and trying to go straight. Blackmail propels her into a little job of larceny that turns out to be a setup for a murder rap and for yet another car chase around the hilly streets of San Francisco. The narrative is so busy, and Goldberg and Goldthwait (as her best friend) have so many boring obligations to its improbabilities, that the movie seems an unnecessary intrusion on its leading players...
Royalty and glamour are not often found in eyewitness accounts of World War II. When they do occur, it is usually a prelude to decadence or a setup for a crushing loss of innocence. The posthumously published diaries of Marie Vassiltchikov are an exception. The author's record of death and destruction is sustained by a strong instinct for the civilized life. This does not always mean oysters and champagne. Between her lines, it is easy to read sadness for the lost chivalry and ideals of Western culture. Being young and shielded by her status as a refugee from Bolshevism...
...chilly time offstage. According to some accounts, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher arranged for Bakker to meet young Jessica Hahn, a secretary for the Full Gospel Tabernacle, a Pentecostal church in Massapequa, N.Y. According to Bakker's official statement in resigning as head of PTL, the brief encounter was a setup: "I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and then colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate." One friend, Jamie Buckingham, a well-known charismatic writer, told the Washington Post that Bakker "was very surprised that this gal was able to perform the way that...
Vaskevitch and Sofer allegedly used their setup to profit from at least twelve deals involving Merrill Lynch clients. Vaskevitch worked directly on one of them, the purchase in March 1986 of Herman's Sporting Goods by Britain's Dee Corp., which the SEC says produced a profit of $263,988 for the two suspects. Their biggest haul was K mart's 1985 takeover of Pay Less Drug ! Stores Northwest, which the SEC contends brought them nearly $1.2 million...
...care. But such a system must assure that we spend as a nation an "appropriate" amount, relative to other needs and wants, on health care. A national health insurance system--with a much larger administrative role for the individual states than earlier versions of NHI called for, a setup somewhat akin to the Canadian system--with expenditure limits would meet our needs...