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...movie cultists who still have glowing memories of the original 1949 version of D.O.A., but even they may find this remake engaging. Screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue, who recently updated The Fly, has a gift for polishing up pop cultural artifacts so that they shine like new. And Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, up from rock videos and Max Headroom, have found their own effective approximation of the beloved film noir style...
...very disappointed," said Warren Professorof Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, who appearedbefore Bok's external review committee in supportof Dalton. "President Bok's ad hoc committee didnot consider the question of whether there wasdiscrimination...
...artistic, musical and literary skills of students exposed to the programs improved much faster than did those of nonparticipating youngsters. Skies students scored 37% higher in music appreciation, 13% higher in literary skills and 5% higher in sensitivity to art. "Something happened to these kids," marvels Market Researcher Anton Morton, who helped analyze the results. "They learned much more and grew much more...
...dark side of William Buckley may be Morton Downey Jr., a sneering mud wrestler who runs a nightly talk show out of New Jersey. That, of course, is not journalism. But otherwise respectable reporters and commentators come close sometimes to the circus form of opinion slinging. Consider the McLaughlin Group, presided over by the amiably thunder-browed ex-Jesuit John McLaughlin, who once worked as a speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House. The McLaughlin Group is great fun, but brawly -- alive with spitballs, hoots of derision, melodramatic postures, overshouts...
Administrative Law Judge Morton Needelman was not impressed. He noted that Knight-Ridder, one of the country's richest and most distinguished newspaper chains, had invested tens of millions of dollars in the Free Press and had never before folded any of its papers. Thus, Needelman concluded, "I have assigned little weight to this threat." But last week, less than a month after Needelman issued his report to Attorney General Edwin Meese recommending against the controversial J.O.A., Chapman pursued his threat further. Emerging from a Detroit meeting of the 17-member Knight-Ridder board, he solemnly announced that...