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...once the Belle is airborne, it is hard to think of any movie that has more vividly portrayed the sheer terror of being in a big tin can as it is kicked through the skies by flak and assaulted by swarms of fighters. In this, its better half, Memphis Belle achieves something like epic proportions. Out of an authentic emotion -- fear -- it finally forges the kind of unshakable link with an audience that the sweet, stale cliches of male bonding could never sustain...
Likewise, American society has, in the past generation, abandoned its commitment to providing a world-class system of secondary education. Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos himself calls student performance "dreadfully inadequate." From both the inner cities and the affluent suburbs comes a drumbeat of stories about tin-pot principals who cannot be fired, beleaguered teachers with unmanageable workloads and illiterate graduates with abysmal test scores. If they can possibly afford to, parents choose private or parochial schools, leaving the desperate or destitute in the worst public schools. Teachers, meanwhile, are aware that they are often the most powerful influences...
...little after 4 p.m. on a humid summer day, nine-month-old Rayvon Jamison was maneuvering his blue-and-white walker toward the refrigerator in his grandmother's kitchen. Suddenly, seven 9-mm bullets ripped through the tin-plated front door, one piercing his tiny body. Rayvon's chilling shrieks of pain shot through the dingy pale brick apartment building in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. His mother Esther scooped up the bleeding child and ran down five flights of stairs and into the street screaming, "They shot my baby! They shot my baby!" Within the hour Rayvon...
Theme-park and cruise-ship shows keep alive the spangled Busby Berkeley dance traditions largely abandoned by Broadway and Hollywood. They honor theater-music classics that no longer make the pop charts. From Wild West rarees to Victorian parlor skits, from Tin Pan Alley to '50s nostalgia, the shows reacquaint the public with styles of entertainment that Broadway once thrived on, and thus conceivably make it possible for such works to prosper anew...
...have met guys like Joey O'Brien (Robin Williams) before, most recently in Tin Men. He is the scuzzball salesman of every consumer's nightmares. For him, selling is more than a job and less than an honorable passion; it is not unlike date rape, against which neither resistance nor entreaty is an effective countermeasure. In Cadillac Man, he is discovered pulling up to a stalled funeral procession, to see if he can unload a replacement hearse on the desperate undertaker. While he's at it, he takes a shot at selling the bereaved widow one of his luxury cars...