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...reserve judgment, which suggests that Forbes is neither so flush nor Dole so wounded as last week's freeze frame suggests. Dole has 2 1/2 weeks, a political lifetime, to regain the lead in New Hampshire, during which time Forbes will finally face the scrutiny afforded a front runner. Though Forbes has no real political record to help or haunt him, he is sure to have to answer for ideas he has promoted in his magazine, from his support of Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan for the 1976 nomination and his (now modified) laissez-faire attitude toward illegal immigration...
This is, or was, a true story, but invested as it is with relentlessly cliched emotions, it plays like cheap fiction. What a sometime visionary like Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) is doing mixed up with it is hard to fathom. Or maybe it isn't. In today's cautious Hollywood, a seasick Dead Poets Society probably looks daring...
...ocean sunsets, shockingly powerful surf) and the human landscape (wet t-shirts, naked torsos, bulging muscles) are fun to look at. The storm scene, where several tidal waves bash the Albatross to bits, is fantastically directed. It is terrifying and electrifying, and not surprising from the director of "Blade Runner" and "Alien." However, Scott could have done without the lingering shots of the drowning victims...
Winning the 3000 meter run in 8:20.71, junior Killian Lonergan breezed to victory. Lonergan led the race until the end but was unaware of a fast-approaching Rice runner, Louis Armentaros, who almost caught Lonergan at the tape. Lonergan has already qualified nationally...
...interviews and focus groups with voters who found Clinton cheery and Dole sour. An unusually cheerless Elizabeth Dole snapped to a TIME correspondent traveling with her in Keene, New Hampshire, "I sure didn't like what I just read.'' Polls in Iowa and New Hampshire showed the Republican front runner losing ground and Steve Forbes bounding into the No. 2 position. The mood at Dole's campaign headquarters was edgy and defensive, with aides speaking quietly into phones about How Could This Have Happened and loyal allies insisting loudly that the speech had been fine. Dole aides insisted that...