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...SPLASH...
...axiomatic: if a man falls in love with a mythical creature in a movie, the result is bound to be a gagging spoonful of whimsy. All credit, then, to Splash for having a mermaid capable of turning her fins into shapely gams flop up on Manhattan's in salubrious shores, where a quick education in paranoia, cynicism and the perils of materialism has ever been available to out-of-towners. For from that unpromising situation emerges a romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature...
...Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman) arrange a satisfactorily romantic ending for their odd couple, they also manage to satirize everything from presidential politics to daytime television. They are a jostling, busily observant, funda mentally good-natured crew, and audiences are well advised to take a plunge on Splash. - By Richard Schickel...
...Commencement thesis" of John Adams, Class of 1755, concerned the necessity of civil government, according to the historical accounts of Samuel Eliot Morrison. Also in the early days. Thomas Wentworth created a splash with his speech on the balance of powers...
...longer he could keep speculation alive, the more public interest he would build. Advisers now concede that the boss's political instincts, as usual, were keener than theirs: timing the announcement a few days after the State of the Union speech got the campaign started with the maximum splash...