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...movie's plot is also stunted; their is no story involved, just a point: salesmen suck, life sucks. None of the characters accomplish anything, they just sink deeper into the depths of real estate salesmanship and the vile morass of life...
Still 10 to 12 points ahead in most polls, Clinton can better afford to hang tough. Aside from differences on format, Bush is delaying in part to give his attacks on Clinton's draft record time to sink in with the public, putting Clinton on the defensive in the first debate while taking some pressure off the incumbent. But if Bush can narrow Clinton's edge in the polls quickly, officials say, he may not need to debate at all. Said a White House official last week: "If we were within 5 points, I'd say we shouldn't debate...
...Andrew's tantrum swirled around the home of Jo and Bruce Powers in Naranja, Florida, a Miami suburb, they hid with their two children, Jo's sister Karen Brocato and several neighbors in a couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been...
...still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were to escape from custody to reveal an even creepier secret...
...Soviet Union -- the Bolshoi and countless folk and choral groups -- is struggling to survive in a parlous new era. When the communist regime dissolved and the economy collapsed, these institutions were cast adrift. The Kirov's subsidy was cut from 95% of its budget to 35%, and it will sink lower. Gergiev has the double task of keeping his treasure functioning at all and at the same time hauling it from the timeless miasma of Soviet bureaucracy into the tough entrepreneurial world of the late 20th century...