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What's the surest thing to come after Christmas? If you said taxes, you were on the right track. For parents who enjoy doing their own taxes (such as is the case with mine), "Turbo Tax '93" and "MacIn Tax," both from Chipsoft, will no doubt be received warmly (if not as a reminder of a tough tax season...
...time Top Three hits -- E.T., Star Wars and Home Alone -- had similar story lines: a boy, fatherless or momentarily so, goes on a quest, defends his turf and befriends an older man. It is no surprise that the sires of these films have been the New Hollywood's surest swamis: Spielberg, George Lucas and John Hughes. Home Alone alone stoked the current PG trend. "You could say it helped expose the sheer size of this market," Hughes says modestly. It cost $18 million and grossed $285 million in North America. And box office is just the beginning. Certain...
...have helped him. Certainly Lauzon, who testifies that this grotesque family portrait is based on fact, survived and thrived -- to make a beautiful film. His story, in this boldly voluptuous telling, reminds us of two truths: no remembered childhood is so bizarre that it cannot have occurred; and the surest way to purge demons is to impale them on the page or screen -- to turn ignorance into understanding and horror into...
Russia's immediate problem is its currency. The ruble is play money, testimony to John Maynard Keynes' observation that "the surest way" to destroy a government is to "debauch its currency." Thanks to an unrestrained government printing press run by Moscow's central bank (whose chairman is appointed by the parliament Yeltsin doesn't control), the ruble supply has tripled since last July. Now, with the inflation rate approaching 50% a month, no Westerner in his right mind would invest in Russia. For Yeltsin, says Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University professor who wrote the Clinton transition team's Russia...
SALVATORE ("TOTO") RIINA, WHO listed his occupation as shepherd, once said the surest cure for a sore finger is to cut off the arm to which it is attached. Last week Italy's organized-crime network was decapitated when the 62-year-old godfather of the Sicilian Mafia was arrested as his car sat stuck in Palermo's rush-hour traffic...