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...announcement was a stunner. Wearing a conservative gray suit that matched his habitual gray demeanor, Prime Minister John Major strode across the lawn of the rose garden behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between...
Speaking of other games, lowly Yale pulled off a stunner, trouncing then fifth-ranked Northeastern, 4-2. The Eli snatched the victory away with three unanswered goals in the third period. The loss sends the Huskies to seventh place in the national poll...
...disjointed, erratic plot follows two star-crossed, gun-toting lovers who spend two weeks killing more 5than 50 people across the country. While the original screenplay comes from the masterful Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of the tight, punchy stunner of a film, "Reservoir Dogs," apparently Stone changed the script so much that Tarantino only wanted to be credited with the original idea, not the script itself. I don't blame him for wanting to be as far removed from this fiasco as possible...
...catch that little-noted stunner in the midst of last week's Whitewater drone? If you were glued to the congressional hearings, to the repudiated diaries, sworn contradictions and "I don't recalls," you may have missed it. A year after the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, the Administration admitted that its previous accounts about the search of Foster's office following his death were, as the Nixonites used to say, inoperative. Even more amazing, the person at the center of this particular storm isn't the President; it's his wife...
...vented her rage over her years as a white man's sex symbol and a victim of Hollywood racism, and proved that in her 60s she was more electrifying than ever. Now, at 76, Horne is back with her most ambitious recording in years, and it's a stunner. The lady has soul, and it's no longer on ice. We'll Be Together Again is a collection of 16 songs written by composers ranging from Duke Ellington to Kris Kristofferson. The record is really a tribute to one particular composer, though. The liner notes call the album "a prayer...