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...passage through the Gauntlet is a skillful blend of stunt and special- effects work, nicely orchestrated by the director, Curtis Hanson. He is less skillful at building suspense around the campsites, possibly because the screenplay is not very tightly or eccentrically wound, possibly because Bacon takes his best line too literally. "I am a nice guy," he says at one point. "I'm just a different kind of nice guy." As a result, Bacon doesn't hone Wade's menace as sharply as he might. He needs to become more erratic, more dangerous, as they paddle farther and farther from...
Meanwhile, the Big Red wound up second in the Ivies, one year after having won the crown, and this year's squad is once again one of the strongest in the league...
...hour period in a big-city emergency room (Chicago again), and it's probably the most realistic fictional treatment of the medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling. Cases are wheeled in and out -- a severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble. The characters are fleshed out in a few deft strokes -- one doctor (Anthony Edwards) is being...
...seen him," Reed recalls. "It's just something about people I have when I first see them. I just don't like them." Yet on that night enmity dissolved in a haze of malt liquor, and somebody got an idea. Along with another young man, Jones and Reed wound up at the high school, and the school ended up in flames...
Britton and escort James Barrett, 74, died instantly. Barrett's 68-year-old wife June suffered an arm wound. Minutes later, police arrested Paul Hill, a local antiabortion extremist who had long called for the blood of clinic personnel...