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...what have Cameron and his crew of thousands come up with? A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron...
...defense that the attorney is ill advised. His accounts of anti- Semitism in Europe and the Middle East are little more than a catalog borrowed from more capable historians. And his preening modesty belongs in a textbook of self-caricature: "Several years ago, Elie Wiesel flattered me by publicly stating that 'if there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different.' Generous as the assessment is, it is an obvious exaggeration...
Harvard added an insurance run with a textbook sequence in the sixth. After a Mrowka walk, Hill laid down a sacrifice bunt and Durand's single brought home...
...suit, Basic Books v. Kinko's Graphics Corporation, was filed by eight textbook publishers in 1989 to clarify the Fair Use clause of the 1976 Copyright Act. Prior to this ruling, commercial establishments only had to receive permission to reprint those materials that were not covered under the Fair Use clause. The district court's reinterpretation of the clause requires approval for all copyrighted materials...
...jubilation of victory last week, many journalists had an uneasy feeling that they had been routed nearly as decisively as the Iraqis. Throughout the war, the Pentagon did a masterly job of controlling the flow of information. The success of the military on the public relations front was a textbook campaign that may serve as a model for wars to come. The press, in the meantime, has a major job of image rebuilding ahead...