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...Penguins, thanks to Ron Francis' late goal, upend the Rangers, 6-5. Page...
...conservative Republicans and Democrats was attempting to dismantle the mechanisms of the New Deal, such as the National Resources Planning Board. The House Un-American Activities Committee began a campaign to link liberalism with communism, suggesting that liberals were not simply lukewarm about capitalism but were actively plotting to upend it. Brinkley, a professor of American history at Columbia University, suggests that the compromises made by New Dealers in the early '40s--backing down on their antimonopolism and support of industrial "planning"--explain in part why "modern American liberalism has proved to be a so much weaker and more vulnerable...
Bullets Fire Blanks Mookie Blaylock breaks the Atlanta record for three-pointers in a season, as the Hawks upend the Bullets 107-92. Page...
What is wrong with Carousel is Carousel. The book is a mess. After a leisurely opening extravaganza, it brings together two discontented and penniless youths who quit their jobs and upend their lives to satisfy a moment of sexual curiosity. Within minutes the pair are rocketed into abiding love. Then the hyperkinetic narrative is suspended for about 20 minutes to accommodate a folksy dance number and a comic song in which the only joke is that a fisherman smells like fish. The action alternates between aimless divertissement and melodrama for an overblown three hours. At the end, the central character...
Scratch a critic and you'll get an admission that Schwarzenegger's films have the quality of ferocity. There is something in Arnold that sparks the pinwheeling imaginations of action directors. They get him to lift trucks, carry huge trees on his shoulder, upend telephone booths with little punks inside. In Mark L. Lester's puckishly violent Commando, he righteously kills dozens of people in his determination to save a single life; as one helpful woman observes of Arnold and his adversaries, "These guys eat too much red meat." John McTiernan's Predator (1987) twists another commando genre into...