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...writer-director Ronald Maxwell's sober intentions and very creditable achievements in this film. Of the three, Martin Sheen's Lee is the most startling. In our folklore (and in the hearts of his troops) the Confederate leader has been granted near saintly status. Sheen gives us the dark side of the holy warrior, a man of courtly manners who is possessed by a vision of a vainglorious, straight-ahead assault on the enemy's center -- the vision that produced Pickett's disastrous charge. It was a course of action that defied reason (personified here by Lieutenant General James Longstreet...
...taken in as a stray. Speaking English as a forgotten language, he explains that his name is Gemmy Fairley, that he was a cabin boy shipwrecked off Queensland and raised by what today would be called Native Australians. ''Blacks,'' the fearful pioneers call them. If readers on the other side of the world experience a weird sense of displacement (the wildlife and astronomy are different, but these old Aussies with their Scottish, Irish and English accents are familiar), it is because + David Malouf writes about his historical compatriots as if they had never left the British Isles. Their bodies...
...happened in a delivery room in Palm Beach, Florida: DONALD TRUMP'S transformation from a self-promoting symbol of '80s excess to a self-promoting symbol of '90s sensitivity. The financially straitened mogul stood by his girlfriend MARLA MAPLES' side throughout the birth of their love child, Tiffany Ariana.He even cut the umbilical cord. Twenty minutes later he was on the phone with reporters talking about the baby...
...happy to see the sporting public embrace Atlanta. In beauty contests, the Phils couldn't win, didn't try. They had a different personality, drawn with the brute simplicity of a police artist's pencil. They were the skungiest bunch of biker types and overfed beef this side of Meat Loaf. In this high-priced age of media sports, a team has to have sex appeal, charisma and watchability, and the Phillies fill the bill. If the phrase ''winning ugly'' had a face, it would belong to left fielder Pete Incaviglia, who thunders toward a pop fly and doesn...
...interview with TIME's Ed Barnes, Cedras waved a copy of the U.N. Charter as he declared the U.S. embargo ''illegal.'' Nevertheless, he said, ''I don't want to renegotiate Governors Island. Just a few interpretative problems'' need resolution. ''We've given up a lot but the other side has given nothing.'' ''Right,'' says a senior U.S. offical. ''And we won't. We're not negotiating. We're not considering any letters. We're not talking interpretations. They've got to live up to what they've signed. These wackos run to defensive positions when you stand up to them...