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...indictable for some villainy. The question is how much trouble the hero, a semiadmirable Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer, will bring down on his head by his squabble with a syndicate wide-body named Bones. A lot, is the answer. Bones walked off with Chili's leather jacket, and Chili, quite reasonably, punched Bones out and shot a crease in his scalp...
Jean-Louis Dumas won't sit still. He wants you to feel the sleeve of his cashmere jacket, listen to the ping of his crystal goblet, ponder the intricate pattern of his silk tie. He wants you to follow him out a side door of his elegant office and down a back staircase to a craftsman's workshop virtually unchanged since the 19th century. All the while, he is rhapsodizing, "This is amazing! This is unique! This is fantastique!" In the workshop, with a view across the roofs of Paris, a leatherworker hand-stitches one of four golf bags ordered...
...grows to like her--Stevie, a mobster who has a gun of his own in his jacket pocket. Sheedy grins and purrs her way through this awkward romance with her usual winning...
...best when describing Southern working-class life with distinctly populist political overtones. This is highlighted on the album's best track, "Another Day," a hand-clapping, banjo-picking, hyperactive hoedown tune that could well have been played at a Southern dance hall like the one pictured on the album jacket...
...totally different upbringing, education, habits and turn of mind. Bush loves sports and entertaining friends. Gorbachev is far more formal. Says one U.S. official who studies him closely: "He's not at all stiff, and he's able to make an occasional wisecrack, but he rarely takes his jacket off or puts his feet up." When Ronald Reagan told his patented funny stories, says one American who attended their summits, "Gorbachev would roll his eyes, and you could see him thinking 'Oh, no, not another story!' " The Soviet President enjoys discussing the theory of social change in the East...