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Blanchard knows his business and his wrestlers. He says that wrestlers do well by developing strong ring personalities and by engaging in lengthy and hateful grudge matches that stir fan loyalties. Such disputes often begin on Blanchard's Monday wrestling television show and spill over into the arena, where more insults and slurs lead to head stompings and chair bashings. Not long ago, one of Blanchard's matches climaxed with a combatant dumping a large bucket of manure on his opponent's head...
Even talented junior Bambi Taylor's move with just over live minutes to play Iron the goal to the field, where she provides one of Harvard's most powerful shots couldn't stir up a Crimson rally...
...former National Security Adviser and now his Secretary of the Interior. Clark, 52, had a similar career path in California: Governor Reagan made him chief of staff, then nominated him to the California Supreme Court. As a prospective U.S. Supreme Court Justice, however, Clark is likely to stir opposition from Congress and the organized bar. His legal credentials are suspect: he dropped out of law school, passed the bar exam only on his second try, and was so inexperienced as a California judge that he had to rely heavily on his staff for legal expertise...
...critical success for his magazine articles and books (which Arlen slyly depicts as exhaustive looks at narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors...
Until a climax too calculated to stir the emotions, Screenwriter William D Wittliff and Director Richard Pearce navigate a careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...