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...this film's influential power lies in its simplicity. The plot has been stripped down as far as possible. Russia has decided to throw its best amateur boxer, Ivan Drago (played by the amazingly-Aryan Dolph Lungren) into the circle of professional boxing. Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the bad guy in parts I and II and the helpful friend in installment III, decides to recapture his old glory by fighting the massive Russian in an exhibition match. Drago kills (I'm not kidding) Apollo in the ring, and Rocky sets off to Russia to avenge his friend. One, two, three...
...Democrats, former Congressman Robert Krueger, who lost in 1978 to Tow er by a mere 12,227 votes out of 2.3 million cast, Congressman Kent Hance and State Senator Lloyd Doggett are running. Former Governor Dolph Briscoe and Lieutenant Governor William Hobby are likely candidates...
TEXAS. When Carter defeated Ford by 129,000 votes out of 4 million cast in the state, he was supported by a united Democratic Party under the leadership of Governor Dolph Briscoe. But Briscoe is now out of office and unwilling to lift a finger for Carter. Along with many other Democrats, he is angry at the President's energy policies, especially the windfall-profits tax on the oil industry. "If I get out and campaign," explains Briscoe, "I might just campaign for myself. When I campaigned for someone else four years ago, the results didn't turn...
...father Moe (John Randolph) is a proud man who has followed the immigrant path to affluence, only to suffer the humiliating descent to penury. Miller has always been an astute observer of how a man's dignity is emasculated when he loses his economic self-respect, and Ran dolph is shatteringly poignant in this role...
Democrats also lost two hotly contested gubernatorial races. Carter stumped for wheeler-dealer Banker Jake in Tennessee, but he was upset by Republican Lamar Alexander, who walked 1,000 miles across the state to conquer his reputation for aloofness. Texas activist Attorney General John Hill, who had toppled Governor Dolph Briscoe in Democratic primary, eschewed Carters help. But he too was upset, by Oilman William Clements...