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...film sets Ford, as a legal killer, or "blade runner," against the homicidal "replicates," genetically designed slaves. The replicates, laborers for colony planets, are designed with four-year life spans. Not surprisingly, some of these unfortunates resent their mortality and return to earth to meet their makers, hoping to steal the genetic secrets of their existence. The tend to kill anyone who gets in their way, which is why Ford gets called...
...Bobby Kennedy's team; Nora plays football with Bobby, pushes him into his pool, sees him assassinated in Los Angeles. Paul, singlehanded, is made to exaggerate all the faults imputed to the Kennedy men. His war heroics are accidental as he flees from the enemy; he helps steal a test in law school; he becomes a compulsive bed hopper, driving one girlfriend to suicide and leaving her daughter, a campaign aide, to die in a hotel fire. Paul is a Senator running for President when fate catches up with...
Guarding the hot corner for purple was a bony runt of a Wharton School student-to-be named Doug Silverstein. Some field no-hit plenty-talk Silverstein embodied all that was good and bad about Little League: unending enthusiasm tarnished by a willingness to steal the opposing team's equipment bag at the coach's behest. He is getting "A's" at business school...
...gold faced purple that season. Krolick's won the Intermediate League title for the second year in a rew, accomplishing, the feat without a certain catcher, who had moved up to the Major League. Where he batted somewhere around 300 and even threw out a few runners trying to steal second base...
Compared with Watergate, a scandal like Teapot Dome was onedimensional, a routine political corruption played out at high levels. Watergate was crucially different. It was not a grab for mon ey, but for power; that distinction, in a democracy, is everything. Moneygrubbing is unsavory. Power grabbing, the plot to steal an election (which, weirdly enough, was already safely assured), was infinitely more serious. It was an attack on the American idea. That is important because if America loses its idea, it becomes merely sordid and fallen and dangerous...