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...that by a twist of fate he has been cast as the suburban version of Billy Carter, the other honky-tonking younger brother with a history of substance abuse. When the comparison is thrown at him, Roger offers this artful riposte: Did you know, he says, that a cancer-stricken Billy spent the last years of his life counseling other terminally ill patients...
David Javerbaum's remarkably flexible facial expressions give a special touch of hilarity to his performance as the love-stricken boy composer Adam Adam. The character is a sweetly doleful soul, but with a volatility that Javerbaum never quite conveys. This odd harmony of personalities is rounded out with an even-handed performance by Chris Scully as Alex Gal, Turai's very American collaborator...
Five other Reagan administration officials had their convictions stricken from the record in the same gesture of Christmas goodwill. These five pardons were a sleazy post-election move, but Weinberger's pardon is a blatant perversion of justice that shows President Bush's disregard for due process...
...Marines bring cheer to a stricken and starving town...
...down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone lines. "Nearly every correspondent has his story of being robbed at gunpoint, usually by preteen kids," reports Wilde...