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...emotional relevance. This classic spinster (to whose portrayal Maggie Smith brings all the right moves but nothing very individual) is a Dublin piano teacher. Naturally she drinks a bit. Sometimes she drinks a lot. Her timorous gentility suggests to her landlady's brother (Bob Hoskins, with some of his spark plugs missing) the possibilities of untapped wealth -- enough of it, anyway, to finance a restaurant he wants to start. To Judith, his mercenary advances read as a last chance for romance...
...Swing-Man: Definitely the Crimson's deepest position. The junior trio of Neil Phillips, Kevin Collins and Tedd Evers have split time, and are very solid players. Phillips brings a good shot and solid defense to the starting spot, and sixth-man Collins seems to spark a rally every time he comes into the game. Evers can shoot the lights out--when...
...against Latin drug lords rages on. -- Israeli expulsions spark new riots. -- Moscow looks for the Afghanistan exit...
...nape of the man in white," Manila Airport Worker Jessie Barcelona told a hushed Manila courtroom last week. "The gun went off. The man in white toppled forward." The man in white was Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader whose assassination in 1983 gave the initial spark to the rebellion that later ousted President Ferdinand Marcos and installed in his place Aquino's widow Corazon...
...against the Federal Communication Commission's spending money on cross ownership hearings to an 800-page omnibus spending package passed just before Congress adjorned for the holidays. As a result, a fiesty Boston daily willing to sail against Massachusett's prevailing political tide almost certainly will lose its spark. And a mediocre New York paper, the Post, may close down, which would leave New York with one fewer paper that might one day improve--and 1300 people without jobs...