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...another in jeopardy. A Russian cabal has been kidnapping women and using parts of their bodies to graft onto ailing comrades. (It's great to have the Russkies back as movie villains, since screenwriters were running out of ways to cartoonize the Arabs. Carter often portrayed Russians as cold, tough bad guys, ruthless and soulless.) Turns out the boss of the enterprise had been a child victim of Father Joe's. Did the actions of the predator priest turn this kid into a monster? Do the sins of the Fathers infect future generations...
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...another raw, out-with-the-old rock paradigm arrived on schedule: the astringent musical and emotional impulse driving alternative bands strikingly resembles that of the Clash in 1977 or, even more, the Who in 1964. As before, the music tends to be willfully coarse and loud, tough for anyone over 30 to like. As before, the musicians are passionately, defiantly alienated lumpen prole white boys flirting with nihilism. ''I'm a negative creep,'' Nirvana's Kurt Cobain sang. Keith Richards remained cooler than Mick Jagger because he was a junkie; Sid Vicious became the permanently coolest member...
...deal came under immediate fire from Howard Metzenbaum, the Ohio Democrat who chairs the antitrust panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Metzenbaum vowed to hold hearings and denounced the proposed combination as a ''megamonster'' that could overcharge consumers. Perhaps the biggest question of all last week was why the tough-as-nails Malone, 52, long regarded as the undisputed king of cable, would agree to sell TCI and assume the lesser role of vice chairman -- to Smith's chairman and chief executive officer -- in the new company. Malone had loomed as the * potential big winner of the Paramount fight...
...Federal Reserve Board, made a secret trip to Mexico to try to expedite a loan package for the roughly $6 billion that the country needs to continue servicing its foreign debt. Though a rescue loan now seems likely, the conditions set by financiers will probably be tough. Commercial banks have refused to bail Mexico out until it has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. And the IMF will not help until the country has slashed its domestic budget and reduced an inflation rate that may exceed 90% this year. The more Mexico tries to placate its creditors, however...