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BUTCH. In The Terminator, Hamilton's Sarah Connor evolved from a klutzy waitress to a warrior woman who crushed the killer robot in a hydraulic press and spat out the immortal line: "You're terminated, f---er." In T2 Sarah is a guerrilla gone south, dynamiting computer facilities, threatening to inject drain cleaner into the veins of her captors, stashing weapons with her own righteous version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. She is a more twisted sister of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Aliens (also written and directed by T2's James Cameron), who proves her maternal mettle by blasting...
...barely got to reap the benefits of having his visage pasted up all over Harvard Square. After all, the questionable poster showed the back of Callahan's head, so that most admiring fans wouldn't have recognized him in person even if the 6-ft. 6-in. offensive lineman spat on them...
They should talk to the civil rights activists of the 1960s, who were seen on TV screens across the country being beaten and spat on by bigoted whites...
...border, a tall, eagle-faced man strapped 14 members of his family -- including seven children, his wife and his grandmother -- and innumerable pots, kettles, basins and chicken coops to a huge John Deere tractor. As he helped extract the car of a Western journalist mired in a bog, he spat out a complaint: "Why? Why do you Americans allow this to happen? Saddam will kill us all -- men, women and children. Why doesn't Bush do something? Why should all my children...
...spat started when David Frost interviewed for public television the top allied commander in the gulf. Schwarzkopf said he had recommended that the U.S. keep fighting, since his troops could have "made it a battle of annihilation" that, by inference, would have finished Saddam's regime. To many listeners, it sounded like a man praising his boss's magnanimity, but Bush decided he could not afford the impression that he had "wimped out," as an aide put it. His advisers put out word that the general had raised no objection when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell phoned Schwarzkopf...