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A group of children in tatters sits in judgment on an old man. He is charged with having allowed the federal deficit to run rampant. "Are you ever going to forgive us?" he asks them pathetically. This 60-second commercial, titled The Deficit Trials: 2017 A.D., was made for W.R...
Alejandro is an illusive character because his friends and enemies tell contradictory stories about him, but more important because the narrator repeatedly reminds the reader that his investigations are a preparation for lying, for conjuring a fiction. Such modernist hugger-mugger has great potential for tedium. But Vargas Llosa's...
After performing those feats of damage control, Puccio narrowed his own case to one clear, pointed counterpunch. No crime had been committed, he declared, because Mrs. Von Bulow had never been given any insulin. A series of medical experts backed his contention that there was no firm proof of insulin...
Cynics will call this a B-team Superman. Screenwriter David Odell and Director Jeannot Szwarc concentrate on strong, simple pleasures: Slater's easy grace and uncomplicated beauty; the bravura of (Obi-Wan) O'Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a...
One such driven leader is Michael Blumenfeld, 37, president of BSN Corp. (1983 sales: $20 million), a Dallas mailorder sporting goods house. Seventeen years ago, Blumenfeld was laid off from his job as an industrial-guard supervisor. Noticing that tennis nets on public courts were often in tatters, the fledgling...