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...VIETNAM VETS have supported Springsteen and repudiated Stallone. A disabled vet told Rolling Stone, "Springsteen cares about what we've done. He doesn't shun us....'Born in the USA' really hit home." On the other hand, when Stallone visited Harvard last year, Vietnam vets protested. One vet complained that "Rambo represents an ugly mood in this country...
...flaunts too many characters, plotlets and reversals of mood but still manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit under his top hat. The rabbit is the only stiff in this fine time at the movies. And Bleasdale is the best thing to come...
...woman finds a little dog in Tijuana, and when she discovers that the animal's eyes are runny, takes it to the vet. His diagnosis: "First of all, it's not a dog -- it's a Mexican sewer rat. And second, it's dying...
...spent a lifetime treating the ailments of cows, horses, sheep and pigs, yet here I am, in my twilight years, bringing out a volume of my dog stories." So begins James Herriot's wholly unnecessary apologia. The Yorkshire vet's style is unadorned, his message is affectionate, and his four- footed characters are irresistible. Here he has gathered 50 recollections of canines, some of them sentimental, a few tragic and at least one--the story of a terrier male who abruptly becomes attractive to other males--as odd as anything in the Decameron. Herriot recalls that in his student days...
...last year became president of the local chapter of an organization that combats student alcoholism. Marylee James, 45, enrolled at Furman University, is a member of the Navy Reserve and an ex-nurse who counseled Viet Nam veterans before, she says, "it was chic to be a Viet Nam vet...