Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three Libner lads have not spoken for what they indifferently estimate as three to five years, all being sure they have nothing but genes in common. The eldest, Marvin (Daniel Stern), is an officious straight arrow. The youngest, Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), is a juvenile delinquent manque. The middle brother, Buddy (Arye Gross), naturally keeps trying to mediate fraternal fractiousness. None can imagine why their father Fred (Alan Arkin) insists that they all are needed to perform a single task: pick up a perfectly preserved 1954 Cadillac convertible in Detroit and deliver it (despite speed traps, accidents and fights for control...
...perestroika, there was, it seems, Captain Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, commander of the Soviet Typhoon-class submarine Red October. Since he is played by the estimable Sean Connery in this movie version of Tom Clancy's hurricane-class best seller, you know he can't be a hard-liner -- a stern-liner, maybe, but never a hard-liner...
...Huskies pulled out to an early lead, but Radcliffe's JV worked their way through them over the 2000-meters, pounding to a bow-to-stern victory of about five seconds...
...empire that Toronto developer Robert Campeau assembled in the '80s was placed under the protection of federal bankruptcy court. A hard-driving raider, Campeau had used junk bonds to help finance the $10.2 billion he paid for Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores, whose ten chains include Bloomingdale's, Stern's and Jordan Marsh...
...tourist capitals of Europe. And is anyone in a hurry to see a 2-hr. 22-min. film in Romany with English subtitles? As it happens, the movie does take time for side trips from Yugoslavia to Italy, to show young Gypsies stealing and pimping at their bosses' stern whims. But its heart is in a Serbian village of Gypsies, where outcasts find a family and fevered dreams are as tangible and intimate as a relative come to sleep in the crowded shack called home...