Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 33, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 October 1988 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 13,1968

The Third Annual Bainbridge Community Festival will begin Friday and continue through Oct. 23 on the west side of Bainbridge. Ival Lane, president of the Bainbridge Improvement Society, and committee member Gail Carrington, pose beside one of the new signs (on the east end) at the entrances to town. Proceeds from the festival, including a pumpkin bake-off entry auction, will go toward a Bainbridge community center fund. (BannerGraphic photo by Gary Goodman).

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in Winchester, Va., and a new assignment in the AI scheme of things. “It’s always been the plan that I’d go back to Strasburg,” Radle acknowledged Tuesday. “AI is growing rapidly and I’m being pulled back to help out with some of that. “I’ve been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be here in Greencastle,” he generously continued, addressing Walden Inn well-wishers. “I think Greencastle is a great place. The people have been just great. Everything has been just what we expected.” SHENANDOAH, MEANWHILE, has been busily filling its orders of plastic injection-molded interior auto parts for the Diamond Star plant at Bloomington, 111., and the Ford truck operation at Louisville. “Expansion may be coming a little sooner than a

Republicans

that state campaigns have become more a race of personality than policy. “I like to think of myself as a nice guy,” Pease, the Brazil Republican, smiled. “And my opponent is a nice guy.” THUS, HE SAID, the State Senate race may boil down to who seems to be nicest guy of the two candidates, rather than “who is best to continue the present policies.” In the past eight years, he said, Republican state leadership has successfully addressed such complex issues as drugs in schools,

Mixed review for ‘Cocktail’

Editor’s note: Gordon Walters is professor of romance languages at DePauw University, where he teaches a variety of courses in film, including History of Film and Film Criticism. Walters has written on film for several publications and is a regular contributor to “Cinema Annual.” Walters’ review will appear in the Banner-Graphic on a regular basis. By GORDON WALTERS Banner-Graphic Film Editor Listen, this is going to sound dumb, but in his new movie, “Cocktail,” Tom Cruise plays this bartender, see, who is a real schmuck. All he thinks about is money and women and stuff. But later on, he falls in love with a wonderful girl and comes to see what life is all about, OK? Hey, but what’s really weird is that the Cruise character, Brian Flanagan, was much more fun and more interesting when he was a creep. When Brian turns out to be a good guy after all, the movie sort of self-destructs as a second-rate pastiche of “The Graduate.” FLANAGAN IS a workingclass kid from Queens who, after a hitch in the Army, returns to New York and sets about finding a path to success in life. Brian one day happens into a saloon where barkeep par excellence Douglas Coughlin (Bryan Brown) lurks like Satan himself.

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AIDS, farm debt counseling, drunken driving, home health care alternatives for the elderly and victims rights. State funding for schools, at the same time, has been increased to the third-highest rate in the country. “School funding is up 35 percent statewide, which is a dramatic commitment to our young people,” the GOP speaker said, adding that state funding has been increased 45 percent in his Senate district PERSONALLY, Pease said, he has been directly involved in state legislation dealing with ethics and

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Coughlin casts a spell on Brian, hires him on the spot and begins to initiate the sorceror’s apprentice. “Welcome to the Big Time,” Coughlin laughs heartily as he juggles bottles of potions and shows his protege how to deftly cheat customers. For Coughlin, mixology is a sweet science in itself and a means to various ends there are the women, whom a skillful bartender can mesmerize and bend to his will: ‘ When you see the color of their panties,” Coughlin proudly confides to Brian, “then you know you’ve made it” And with the women come the money, promises Couglin. For a time, Coughlin and Brian work as a team in a glitzy but in-ferno-like Manhattan disco, attracting throngs of yuppies who come to watch the duo of mountebanks dance and sing and pour and serve instant but fleeting euphoria.

lot of people think,” Radle offered. And a harbinger of just that might have been a recent Canadian strike which affected parent company Redpath Industries. The situation prompted an exercise in versatility at the Greencastle plant as Radle’s forces turned out injection-molded PVC pipe and pipe fittings. “Injection molding is injection molding,” Radle simplified. TRANSLATED, THAT MEANS that even if auto sales slumps hit, the Shenandoah plant can adapt. Meanwhile, Greencastle and Shenandoah will have to adapt again next month when John Lawson moves in to take over as company GM. Then again, we’re getting pretty adept at adapting. Especially thanks to folks like Bill Radle.

access to public records. “Those are not the kind of things that get a lot of press,” he conceded, “but they are consistent with the Republican philosophy.” That same philosophy, Pease said, has resulted “in success in the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. And it is a philosophy worth protecting, defending and expanding.” “I am confident the state of Indiana has provided the best over the past eight years,” the state senator said. “I am proud of that tradition and I look forward to that future.”

INDEED, NOTHING lasts forever, especially between two such volatile personalities. Teacher and pupil have a falling-out, and Brian heads for Jamaica, where he tends bar by day and wenches by night. Until he meets Miss Right, in the form of Jordan Mooney (Elizabeth Shue), and “Cocktail” coagulates into syrupy schlock. Writer Hey wood Gould smothers poor Shue in an insipid role and limp dialogue and the dead-weight grope scenes which involve Brian and Jordan seem to have been concocted to accompany the film’s pop-slop score instead of the other way around. THE RELATIONSHIP between Brian and Coughlin is what catches our eye and imagination, and on this level, “Cocktail” works as an intriguing, often bitterly funny, study in moral rot. Cruise is perfectly cast as Brian, because, after ‘Top Gun” and “The Color of Money,” he has the role of the superficial, materialistic, opportunistic hotshot down pat. Brown is excellent as the diabolical master manipulator who finally and tragically gets what he wants, and he and Cruise make us shudder at the appalling waste of the pursuit of emptiness. *** “Cocktail” opens Friday at Ashley Square Twin Cinemas in Greenastle.

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