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...pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains, "N-M-E L-E-N." A doctor holds aloft a test tube and announces, "I F D Q-R!" The whimsical drawings and ingenious punch lines are M-U-S-N from the beginning...
Bruce Springsteen: Shut Out the Light (Columbia). This single song is under four minutes long but packs a punch stronger than most albums. His Born in the U.S.A., released in May, not only has no serious competition for album of the year (except maybe Prince's Purple Rain), it marked Springsteen's breakthrough to a wider audience. Newcomers should be tipped off to some information well known to fans of long standing: it pays to buy the single versions of the album's hits because stashed away on the flip sides are entirely new songs unavailable elsewhere...
...Hills, in addition to your Miranda rights, you are apparently entitled to be addressed as "sir" until you are proved guilty and to be interrogated by a policeman wearing a scrupulously buttoned three-piece suit. It comes as a relief to Axel when a questioner gives him a sneak punch in the gut. He takes it as a signal that the traditional basics of police work have not been entirely forgotten among the boutiques and the Mercedes...
Heavyweights must measure up to John L. Sullivan, and Biggs' flaws are that he has no charisma and cannot punch. But the state of the division must hearten him: it is the main reason boxing seems moribund again. When Dempsey went, he was taking boxing with him. Then Louis came along. Marciano. Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard made the welterweights the heavyweights, and this is slim Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like...
...quest for Garbo, Gilly encounters a motely crew of New Yorkers, all of whom are supposed to bring him closer to uncovering the location of the mysterious actress. Lumet introduces the characters in brief cameos, but these supposedly comic sketches are disappointingly inadequate. They simply lack punch. One exception is Gilly's meeting with a lonely gay salesman on the ferry to Fire Island, where Garbo has a home. As they wander along the beach at dusk, he describes his lonely personal life. Finally, the mute lighting is perfect, providing a discrete backdrop for this sensitive scene. The scene aptly...