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Herein the "Getaway"-speak of all the characters is laid out: cash and sex. After Doc robs a dog-racing vault for Benyon, he hops into a nervous Carol's car. She looks concerned, asks him if he is alright, looks at the bag with 2 million dollars and is immediately reassured, "I guess so! she gleefully exclaims...
...worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer. But he crashed askew, incurring a concussion and dropping out of his place of honor. The privilege went to Stein Gruben, who brought the stunt off stirringly...
...whole country is behind her." She has only to enter her family's home in Stoneham, Massachusetts, for reassurance. The dining room is filled with tubs of unopened mail. Her close family has always been her mainstay, the lump of gold Harding never had. But the struggle to vault their daughter to the top has been tough on the Kerrigans; father Dan is a welder, mother Brenda is legally blind. When Nancy began lessons, the family thought she might follow the path of her young coach, Theresa Martin, who was putting herself through college by teaching kids...
This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
...Proposition 174 had too many gray areas to elicit much supportive enthusiasm. In fact, the voucher timetable had not even been clarified to the voters. With a more carefully designed school choice ballot, a silent majority of concerned parents would revolutionize one state's education system. And they would vault school choice into the place of public prominence it deserves...