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...blacks slain by police, graffiti proclaiming TAWANA ((Brawley)) TOLD THE TRUTH -- but no coherent clues. Lee cagily provides a litmus test for racial attitudes in 1989, but he does so by destroying the integrity of his characters, black and white. They vault from sympathetic to venomous in the wink of a whim. One minute, Sal delivers a moony monologue about how much he loves his black neighbors; the next, he is wielding a baseball bat, bound to crack skulls. One minute, Mookie urges caution; the next, he trashes the one store the brothers can call home...
After three days of intense, sometimes emotional debate, the time had come to vote. Normally, delegates in the U.N. General Assembly cast their ballots electronically, pushing buttons at their desks and watching the results -- green for yes, red for no -- wink up instantly on two display boards overlooking the hall. This time, 18 Arab countries insisted on a voice vote as well. By a draw of lots, Britain went first, and abstained. Next came Uruguay, with a decisive si. Soon there was a oui and a da, then the Arabic assent na'am. As the U.N.'s six official languages...
...committee is available to punish those who might spice their lyrics with a double entendre or even a Swedish joke. The panel hasn't had to meet in years. "People like to ridicule us as a bunch of squares," declares Sarasota, Fla., anesthesiologist Hank Vomacka with a wink. "But they keep coming back to listen...
...little to be cheerful about, the tune was not heard in Atlanta. Manny Harmon, the Los Angeles bandleader who has played at Republican Conventions since 1956, took note and helped make the decision to use the song. "You know, it's a Democratic song," said Harmon with a wink. "But we made a new arrangement...
This goofy gesture, which America's most criminally pretty actress flashes smack in the middle of Jonathan Demme's high, wild and handsome comedy Married to the Mob, is no wink to the cognoscenti. Nor is it the white flag that a leading actress must eventually wave to the cartoon figures -- the Mafia dons and prima donnas -- scampering around her. It is the distress signal of a young woman, once cocooned in marriage, who now sees herself as an adolescent spilling confidences over a two-straw chocolate soda...