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...implementation of conservative solutions like workfare and education vouchers. As for those inner-city schools that repeatedly fail to install confidence or discipline in students, Fallows seems to put out a call for Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who is known for walking around while carrying a baseball bat and a bullhorn...
...does so by destroying the integrity of his characters, black and white. They vault from sympathetic to venomous in the wink of a whim. One minute, Sal delivers a moony monologue about how much he loves his black neighbors; the next, he is wielding a baseball bat, bound to crack skulls. One minute, Mookie urges caution; the next, he trashes the one store the brothers can call home...
...once he dons his rubber and leather bat costume, Keaton is something else again. His face, hidden behind a black rubber mask, is almost expressionless. His voice, somewhere between a rasp and a whisper, reveals almost no emotion. It is easy to understand why the people of Gotham are afraid of him--early sightings of the superhero describe a six-foot bat who drinks human blood. Keaton does his best to make Batman a creature of the supernatural...
...doubt there will be any changes off the bat," Veneziano said. "You can't argue with the success of the department and having two assistants gives you great versatility, but I must emphasize that I don't have any preconceived notions...
...psychodrama . . . it's Batman! From the director and star of Beetlejuice comes a dead-serious gloss on the cave-dwelling superhero. Its producers will be happy, in this summer of the sequels, if moviegoers of the future remember Tim Burton's movie as Batman I. -- Broken Bat: the film reviewed...