Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newspaper ads for the movie hone in on the romance angle in this supposed tale of intrigue. "Is it a crime of passion, or an act of treason?" the ads ask. These words sit, innocently enough, next to a big close-up of Young, who appears poised to bite a reclining Costner's neck. That's the passion part...
...Bender follows Columbia's history, he tells a tale of how, in the late 1800s, higher education became more important to society but never capitulated to the code of the surrounding streets. Change would have meant a more open admissions policy and a more independent faculty, but Columbia resisted change. It's an incredible story, albeit a disheartening...
...Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally, underdeveloped dramatically. The picture is plenty handsome, and Glenne Headly and Rip Torn have some fun as a lost lady and the meanest guy in Austin, Texas. Still, Nadine, an agreeable entertainment, is a disappointment from a fine filmmaker. This shaggy tale of his native state has a place in Benton's heart...
...absolute numbers the problem of AIDS among minorities hardly compares with other enduring inner-city health-care problems such as hypertension, drug abuse and teenage pregnancy. But the future may tell a different tale. Testing of military-service applicants for exposure to the AIDS virus has revealed an incidence that is four times greater for blacks than for whites. If present trends continue, blacks and Hispanics might constitute as much as 40% of the predicted 54,000 AIDS deaths in 1991. Warns Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious diseases at Howard University Hospital: "Unless we can interrupt this pattern...
...National Security Adviser John Poindexter's insistence that "the buck stops here with me" on the diversion of profits from the Iran arms sales to the contras meant that investigators had not found a "smoking gun" in the President's hand. But many Americans found the admiral's tale too tall to be credible. Polls showed that a majority of Americans still believe the President was lying when he claimed he did not know about this diversion. "For the first time probably in his whole career, his integrity has been brought into question," conceded his pollster, Richard Wirthlin. "That troubles...