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...smoke; the poncho he wore could have been a shroud. As Dirty Harry and a passel of creepy cowboys, Eastwood carried himself with the slow, wily grace of the living dead. Idealism had been blasted out of him -- only a grim irony stirred inside. Unforgiven, his Oscar winner and $100 million smash, was not a valedictory to the Clint persona; it was the latest verse in a career-long elegy to the faded American Dream...
Based on a novel by Virginia Woolf, "Orlando" has all the pieces needed for a movie destined to be an award winner, or at least a cult classic. There is cinematography that comes close to a quality novel's description, acting with extreme depth and dry, campy humor meant to shock as well as entertain...
Steve Redgrave, the Briton who is trying to become the most successful oarsman of all time, won twice. Redgrave, winner of gold medals at three successive Olympics and aiming for a fourth in Atlanta, took the coxless pairs with fellow Barcelona gold medalist Matthew Pinsent in the Sil- ver Goblets and Nickalls...
...what hospital officials billed as a remarkable comeback story. The Cambridge Hospital yesterday announced it is the winner of a prestigious national award for excellence in Community Service...
...Well, in the U.S. they found ways and means of limiting the power of the Executive to such an extent that the presidency is quite circumscribed. What I am pleading for is that we must move away from the winner-take-all system that we inherited from Great Britain. It works in homogeneous societies, but it is not the right system for a big country with vast regional interests and many language and cultural groups. It is not a question of taking the prize away, but of ensuring that a government won't be able to do again what...