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Ultimately, though, hyperbolic scenes played by unoriginal characters fail to confront the film's "deep" themes--"what is hero?" and "how absurd and objective is the media, anyway?" Frears, who in the past brought us edged films "The Grifters," "Sid and Nancy," and "Dangerous Liaisons" seems to have sold out in his first glossy big-budget film. The film's ending is too neat and much too happy, and the performances that Frears has coaxed from his superstar cast-Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Andy Garcia-are just mediocre...
...McIlvaine, vice president of baseball operations for the San Diego Padres. "Bobby Cox got beat over the head for four years as general manager while he was quietly drafting good, young left-handed pitchers. Suddenly, this year, they all came together. They added Otis Nixon, Terry Pendleton and Sid Bream, and when the good pitching kicked in, it had good defense behind...
Because of its record as an effective mediator between Arab and Western countries, Algeria is in many ways well suited to the peacemaker's role. Before leaving Geneva, Aziz met with Algerian Foreign Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali, apparently to no avail. Nevertheless, the Algerians have redoubled their efforts to reach a solution that is essentially based on the French model and that promises territorial concessions from Kuwait...
...join 'em" approach. Sears and J.C. Penney have placed catalog outlet stores at the new discount malls. Upscale Ann Taylor has two clearance centers at megamalls. Even Saks opened its first outlet in Philadelphia's Franklin Mills. "Like it or not, it's the wave of the future," says Sid Mayer, Saks' senior vice president of merchandise liquidation. "Traditional department stores were in trouble anyhow. Discount malls are a necessary evil...
Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr. has announced that oil and real estate tycoon Sid R. Bass, a 1965 Yale graduate is planning a $20 million donation to the school targeted at research and teaching in the humanities...