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Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb refused to waive diplomatic immunity to testify about a lunch he had with Deaver in January 1985 to discuss acid rain. Without evidence about the lunch, that section of the count was dismissed. The jury finally acquitted Deaver of the remaining charges involving acid rain...
...better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief. They are terribly earnest, terribly sincere and just plain terrible. If it really is hip to be square, the Oil City Symphony is further along the cutting edge than the Talking Heads...
...heart, Wall Street and Broadcast News are comedies too, with high energy levels to match their milieus and enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s. Wall Street Director Oliver Stone and Co- Author Stanley Weiser (Project X) get their manic mileage from the gaudy argot of today's power brokers, principally one Gordon Gekko, a black knight who proclaims that "greed is good, greed is right, greed works, greed will save the U.S.A." Listen to the art of the boss raider as he works the phones to spear a couple mil in two minutes flat...
Actually, Retin-A is a synthetic derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid that was introduced in 1971 as a prescription medication for acne. Older patients began reporting an unexpected benefit: not only did their pimples disappear, but fine age lines, freckles and blotches faded or vanished as well. What is more, their skin took on a rosy, youthful glow. The drug's developer, Dermatologist Albert Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, was at first skeptical of the claims. But about a decade ago, he began studies to determine the effects of Retin-A on sun-damaged skin. With...
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time...