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...Berg is a second-generation "king of the claimers," whose father Marion lived by the dry motto "We make our living out of other people's mistakes." In pure numbers of victories, the son has logged eight national training championships, including in 1986. But of late the cheaper achievements have meant less to him than the classic challenges. Van Berg wept last week for his special horse and for his late father. "There's no feeling in the world," he murmured, "like winning the Kentucky Derby...
...John Milius. When a movie features contributions by people whose previous work includes Red Dawn, Rambo, First Blood Part 2 and Streets Of Fire, the emerging world-view would have to be a little skewed. Skewed, however, does not even come close to describing the world of Extreme. The motto here is not "liberty and justice for all," but "we didn't hurt him none, we just roughed...
...storm created by his own confession buffeted Clements, he had good cause to wonder about the merits of S.M.U.'s motto: "The truth shall make you free...
...would go further. I think the Board itself should be more democratic. To begin with, it is a disgrace to a university whose motto is "veritas" that the Board's meetings and actions should be secret. What do they discuss in those meetings? Secret weapons? Troop movements? What? To judge by the minutes of long ago--opened by the University Archives after a discreet 50 years--the meetings are excruciatingly boring. Maybe that is the secret...
...Edmunds performs an almost unimaginable feat. Here, the former member of Rockpile gets away with covering both Elvises, Presley and Costello, on the same side of the same album. Rather than taking the advice of another famous rocker, whose trademark is "Cover me," Edmunds has here adopted as his motto, "Cover everyone...