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...Billy Crudup and Donald Sutherland, not exactly guys you can count on to open a picture. Worse, it follows by a mere two years another movie about its protagonist, the legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine, which flopped miserably. Without Limits, which is a very good movie, will require a stroke of marketing genius to succeed. Or an unusual effort at understanding--a willingness by the audience to set aside generic expectations and engage the movie on its own terms...
Neither did the party's congressional leaders, most of whom were conspicuous in their absence from the airwaves in the aftermath of Clinton's speech. (In a stroke of luck for the President, Congress is on summer recess, its members dispersed across the country and the world.) House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, celebrating his 32nd anniversary with his wife in France, declined CNN's offer to dispatch a satellite truck so he could appear on Larry King Live. His Senate counterpart, Tom Daschle, was spending the week cruising around his home state of South Dakota, alone and, as one aide...
...light side of life" knows that the dark side has a way of encroaching, even on post-hippie millionaires like himself. He has worked hard to fix a once broken marriage. He watched his father slip into the fog of Alzheimer's disease and his mother suffer a crippling stroke. And Buffett very nearly died two years ago, when the vintage seaplane he was piloting crashed and flipped during takeoff from Nantucket Harbor, leaving him dazed and "hanging like a captured insect" in a cockpit filling with water. After he clawed his way out of the wreckage, he says...
DIED. ALFRED SCHNITTKE, 63, iconoclastic Russian composer whose brooding, dissonant works reflected the private despair rather than the officially sanctioned glory of the Soviet Union; of a stroke; in Hamburg. Schnittke's works, termed "polystylistic," incorporated influences from diverse musical eras. Blacklisted by the Soviet Composer's Union for his nonconformity, Schnittke supported himself for years by writing movie scores. Despite his international reputation, he was barred from attending any performances of his work abroad until the mid-1980s...
Even a trip to the emergency room may not save those stricken by summer heat. A new study tracking 58 heat-stroke victims of the 1995 Chicago heat wave reveals that nearly half died within a year and most survivors were permanently disabled...