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...crowd of people was a crowd of Vietnam vets protesting Rambo, and the SWAT team, I suppose, was there in case things got out of hand, which things showed no signs of doing. I stopped for a moment, although ankle-deep in slush, to assess the situation. At the time, it really seemed to me that these people must have something better to do on such a rainy night than to protest a movie. The demonstrators waved their signs. From an upper window in the Hasty Pudding building, three students yelled "Rocky, Rocky, Rocky" at them...
...protestors began moving down the sidewalk in an orderly fashion. From the top window one of the students yelled, "Come back, you chickens." I had been standing, watching, bemused, but now I realized two things: first, that the slush I was standing in had seeped into my shoes, and that I was cold; and second, that I was angry...
...flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Money buys television time, buys Election Day "expenses," buys access to decision makers. Most major candidates now control personal political action committees that let them mobilize allies long before an election. Important Congressmen accumulate similar slush funds. Independent PACs bring the most brutal pressure on individual Congressmen...
...three floors to the basement, where the hospital maintains a colony of 29 primates. There, he removed the walnut-size heart of a seven-month-old female baboon, the animal that had proved to be the best match for Baby Fae, and placed the organ in a cold saline "slush." Elapsed time: 15 minutes...
...Purple Rain were the "classic love story between a struggling musician and a beautiful singer dancer" its publicity insists on, it might as well join this year's slush pile of sensitive adolescent nonentities in leg-warmers and dance shoes. But if you accept it as a celebration of pure sleaze music, transcendent narcissism, and of course Prince. Purple Rain reveals consummate nerve and an unnerving energy level. Though laden with a number of obvious flaws, Purple Rain somehow rises above all that murk--that kid from Minnesota just may be on the way to doing for leather, sweat...