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STILL, the balloons bounce on. After an introduction to Cafe Ole, the action moves to a living room done in Italian kitsch, with marble busts of pizza chefs. Gangleader Don Ianmarie (Andrew Gardner '89) attempts to allay his Italian mama's concerns with some of the evening's best lines, "Mama mia, calzone, Lamborgini, genitalia, guapo..." He explains that her lust for fine cuisine was handed down from "Grandpapa Domino" and "Great Aunt Regina...
...sure that to those who believe The Crimson is insensitive, little was done to allay their concerns. The distrust is great. In a meeting early last spring with members of the Black Students Association, we discussed how we could attract more Blacks to The Crimson. We were told by some BSA members that we were a largely white institution, and were looked on as such by most Blacks on campus...
...Color of Money, has tried for years to make a film of The Last Temptation. Paramount had planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections and had used them only to head off protests...
...date approached, rumors of development problems began to leak out of NeXT's Palo Alto headquarters. Last week company sources confirmed what many already suspected: Jobs would miss yet another deadline, by several weeks at the very least. The setback did nothing to allay the intense speculation surrounding the machine, but it did raise troubling questions about the computer's ultimate chances for success and about the formidable reputation of its creator...
...contribution." During his time in Cambridge he has worked to aid understanding between people of different races, cultures and classes. One way of achieving this goal is to recruit more minorities, and Perez will be helping the admissions office do just that next year by trying to allay Chicano students' fears of the 352-year-old institution...