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As the deprogrammer who saves Danny, James Woods is the perfect foil for the maniacal Kirklander. Over-acting at every turn, Woods makes even the cult leader look human. By the time he gets his clutches on Danny--ostensibly to save him from the cult--he's behaving just as...
The film's two plots--one dealing with Jules' obsession with the diva and the other, with the sleazy operations of something called the "Caribbean Connection"--revolve around the time-honored devices of mistaken identity and unwitting involvement in crime. When Jules illicitly tapes a Hawkins concert, he becomes the...
Your Essay on the growing obsession with security among Americans could easily have extended its point to the Defense Department. Nowhere is there a more compulsive and irrational quest for security than in the military. Just as bodyguards make the guarded feel more insecure, our growing nuclear arsenal only increases...
Koch, in his single-minded obsession with producing balanced budgets and a "healthier" city economy, underestimated the human impact of his policies. he justified harsh cuts in the budget by reminding critics that the city nearly went bankrupt in 1975. Between 1979 and 1981, he cut $29 million from the...
Begin's rhetoric was more high-pitched, his images more starkly drawn than his predecessor's. All of Israel's older generation of statesmen had been deeply affected by the Holocaust-many in tragically personal ways, as was Begin-but Begin somehow seemed more indelibly marked by...