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...father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film whose screenplay won Stone his first Oscar) explode on the window of a motel room while the two ( make love and a hostage looks on. As the Cowboy Junkies' ethereal version of Sweet Jane plays on the sound track, they make a blood pact, and the drops form...
...thirtysomething characters, Angela is intensely analytical. Her appeal, in fact, is that she is so perceptive and articulate for her age. Yet at times the insights the writers attribute to her seem implausible. When faced with the chance to be alone with Jordan, she doesn't giggle or express vague fear but reasons that she may need the fantasy of her obsession more than the reality of him. "If you make it real," she says, "it's not yours anymore." That is an intriguing perception, but not one likely to be made by a girl who still cries...
Jessica Walling's wide eyes equally express her character with their blank blue stare. Brooke Ashton is the company ingenue, who is as far from ingenious as the rest of the cast is from their script. Though Brooke is able to put aside her space cadet personality to become the perky Inland Revenue tax secretary of "Nothing On," she is too fragile to roll with the punches when the ride gets bumpy. Oblivious, she sticks to the script, blindly thwarting the others' efforts to ad lib in the face of disaster...
...cities to the great plains of America's cultural space. Ideas and style statements that 40 years ago might have languished for a while in jazz clubs and coffeehouses now move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie drug Ecstasy are shipped overnight throughout the merchandise mart that...
Dubbed the Health Security Express and organized by supporters of Clinton- style reform, bus caravans from Portland, Dallas, Boston and Independence, Missouri, will wheel across the country, picking up passengers and making made-for-media rally stops before converging on Washington next week, just as Congress is beginning full debate on its modified versions of Clinton's plan. The President hopes the bus caravans will help him sell a message he thought he had got across 10 months ago. When the President unveiled his reform plan last September, polls showed that most Americans favored his approach to overhauling the system...