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Director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, In the Line of Fire) handles it all proficiently and at times artfully, as in two elaborate tracking shots that reveal various levels of biological contamination and the spread of the disease through hospital vents. Still, the whole operation looks musclebound. Outbreak is really about the lumbering, quasimilitary maneuvers that go into big-budget filmmaking. If Preston's virus story were a virus, the Outbreak team would aim an H-bomb at it. And the Hot Zone people would be sitting around apprehensively, waiting for it to develop...
...Roughshod" and "musclebound." That's how President Clinton last week described organized labor's lobbying tactics against lawmakers who support the free-trade agreement. Those ugly terms, which evoke old stereotypes of spaghetti-sucking Mob bosses and pistol-blazing hitmen, infuriated Ronald Carey, the leader of the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He demanded that Clinton apologize for using "code words" that are "an insult to every working man and woman in America...
...obsessed with bowel movements as nature's prophylactic -- "Push, my love," she whispers urgently to the infant Leo, a captive princeling enthroned on a potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that he is prey for the scrawniest bully. His gross grandfather (Julien Guiomar) has tried to drown Leo, who can't wait to return the favor...
Some adults may think the four lean, mean green fighting machines--named for Renaissance artists--are more likely to spark a child's imagination than the run-of-the-mill musclebound superhero. But 73 educators from 19 states who responded to the survey said kids emulate the turtles' karate chopping and pizza chomping, but little else...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of Hollywood's rare action stars who have crossed / over successfully to comedy (Twins). Teamed with a band of cute kids, he seems assured of another musclebound smash...