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Eddie Murphy is dead. Long live Eddie Murphy. In his latest movie, the erst-while superstar delivers a captivating, many-sided performance that ironically succeeds most when Murphy exaggerates and demonizes the very character that launched him to stardom--the brash, vulgar fast-talker able to one-up anyone. But returning constantly to the lower end of the roller coaster -- bathroom humor and insipid romance -- the movie acquires a wearying, frustrating rhythm of unbearable idiocy alternating with high-quality hilarity...
...that it takes a village to raise a child, Elizabeth made sure that we know how to find the emergency exit in a smoke-filled airline cabin. If the two women ever did hold that debate, Elizabeth might try to argue that she's "a doer, not a talker...
...that the Commander in Chief may be entitled to the same kind of protections as active-duty personnel. The next day the Democrats offered an ad called "Empty." With a picture of a Senator's cluttered desk, the announcer says, "He told us...he was a doer, not a talker. Then he told us that he was quitting, giving up. Leaving behind the gridlock he helped create--and now all he offers are negative attacks...
...leaders. Through his numerous trips to the Middle East and through dealings in other international hot spots, he has developed a working knowledge of important issues. Granted, he is not likely to turn up at a protracted think-tank meeting and is better characterized as a doer than a talker; however, that is not a weakness but a strength that should not be discounted. PRESTON PARRISH Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
Dole's transformation represents the third "new" Bob Dole of this campaign year. After New Hampshire there was Battlin' Bob Dole fighting for the soul of the Republican Party. Of late there has been Bob Dole, a Doer not a Talker, and now we have Bob Dole, Just a Guy Without a Tie. But Bob Dole, Citizen, may be the real thing, suggests Dole biographer Richard Ben Cramer, author of What It Takes. "His resignation," Cramer says, "puts him in touch with the younger Bob Dole, the Dole of the Russell High basketball team who would go and pat everybody...