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Washington is in the grip of a memorial epidemic. The success of the Viet Nam Memorial has spawned demand for more. Memorials are in progress to Korean War vets, to black Revolutionary War patriots, to women in military service, to law-enforcement heroes, to women in Viet Nam, to Francis Scott Key, to Kahlil Gibran (!). The hunger for memory etched in stone is exactly what one would expect from a culture that, having just now transcended paper and entered the radically ephemeral world of video, finds itself living in an ever moving pastless present...
These days, the Soviet Union and its capital evoke less mystery and fewer perturbations than they did eight years ago. Gorbachev and glasnost have helped see to that. But Smith's formula for success ought to remain valid if a suitable substitution can be found for step 3. In Polar Star, Smith finds it. One dead body leads to others, along an arc of increasing menace and violence. Arkady Renko, the intrepid police investigator of Gorky Park, reappears, again called to rescue a situation that shadowy, powerful forces may not want to be saved...
...Ronald Reagan's main goals as President was to put his conservative stamp on the federal judiciary. His success on that score was dazzling. Thanks to the large number of openings that occurred during his two terms in the White House, Reagan was able to appoint 346 federal judges -- more than any other President in American history. "It is one of his most enduring legacies, and one of his most significant," says William Bradford Reynolds, the controversial former Assistant Attorney General for civil rights in the Reagan Administration...
Costner defers credit for the film's success to Robinson: "He's the star of Field of Dreams." But there are moments the star is proud to claim. "When Ray is throwing to Shoeless Joe, he gets so excited that he glances back to the house to see if his wife is looking. When Ray is walking toward his dad, picking at his hand, and, realizing that his dad is doing the same thing, he quickly puts his hands down. And his run to the mound isn't a completely athletic run. It's a little funny. There's some...
Given that history, it is no surprise that the entertainer has had difficulties with women. In 1949 he married Jody Wolcott, with whom he had three sons. Carson started to enjoy modest success as a West Coast comedian. But in the late '50s he began to drink excessively, and there were several instances of physical abuse. "He could have accidentally killed me and not have known about it until the next morning," Jody recalls. When Carson's career pointed him to New York City, the couple tried to reconcile. But Jody saw ominous signs: "When we were unpacking, I found...