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...Street Journal story that showed how the Democratic National Committee was in effect laundering money by directing tobacco lobbies to give to less scrutinized state-party organizations (the D.N.C. denies the charge). The amounts were relatively small, but the message is clear: cigarette money is tough for anyone to kick...
...inequality--the growing disparity of wealth, wage stagnation, layoffs and an economy that creates jobs but not well-paying ones." Elizabeth Panetta, a 31-year-old former bartender who is training the Los Angeles students, puts it more bluntly. "Union Summer is a shot in the arm--and a kick in the butt," she says. "The labor movement has been tired and worn out in many places and unprepared for the issues...
...wedding party sat glumly ignoring the ruckus, as the street theater proceeded outside. "We felt bad about disrupting the wedding," said Kamaria Finch, a Sarah Lawrence activist. "But when we saw the waiters giving us thumbs up, it was worth it." Union Summer was learning to kick butt...
...film has a salutary scope and bustle and enough kick in the fireball special effects to make audiences cheer--sure, it's the end of the world, but you can still party like it's 1999. As Will Smith says, "You can sell an alien attack better than the old days when you could see the zipper on the back of the alien's costume." Minute by minute, though, things look mighty familiar. If Forrest Gump was Everyman, ID4 is Everymovie, a browse through the whole film catalog: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Strangelove, Close Encounters, Alien...
Williams is the damsel in distress; she gets to kick and shoot a few bad people, but at the climax, when she needs to pick up a gun, it slips through her fingers. (Girls--can't they do anything?) James Caan, as Arnold's boss, nicely gauges the power and menace of a G-man too long in the game; when he says the word patriotism, it sounds like "paid treason." Schwarzenegger, of course, is a paid tree trunk. And for the first time in a while, his character is as solid as he is. Welcome back...