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...Visually, stylistically, thematically, et cetera, it comes up empty in the Brains Department. The script is banal. The acting, deadpan-dull. And the images clutter up like so many hip books on a crowded coffee table. With the possible exception of Gremlins, Joe Dante's unintentionally horrific testament to the decline of Western Civilization, Subway may be the most completely offensive, manipulative, and downright irritating picture in recent memory...
...last will and testament, released upon his death in 1949, Stillman instructed his caretakers "to have my remains cremated and the ashes scattered in Black Rock Forest, Orange County, New York." In the same document, he donated to the University the 3800-acre parcel of land that borders the Hudson River, along with a sizable endowment...
More than anything, the Princeton contest will test whether Harvard's second-place standing in the Ivy League is a testament to the spirit and savvy of its young team or a mere fluke...
...sweet by-and-by. The future is not dramatized because the elements of drama no longer exist. Instead, the narrator tells us about 1986, the year humanity took its first step down the evolutionary ladder. The tale is a burlesque that mixes natural history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles tourists from Ecuador to the Galapagos. There are baggy-pants characters including a Midwestern con man, a widowed schoolteacher, a Japanese computer...
Though they deny it, Reagan and his Administration have already changed policy sharply on the dollar. The President long viewed the greenback's strength as a source of pride, a testament to the robustness of the U.S. economy and the eagerness of foreigners to swap their own currencies for dollars to be poured into American investments. The reputation of the U.S. as a "safe haven" for investments that will not be ravaged by inflation or undercut by leftist politicians certainly has been a factor in the dollar's rise, but most economists outside the Administration give far greater weight...