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...this is a delightful new surprise; never before has a group of Harvard men so vehemently banded around this cause. Maybe these students would like to join Harvard women in a march sometime? I don't know if I'm making myself clear here, but let me be blunt--there's a gross double standard being used in these arguments...
...gentler designation colored. Early in this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass demonstrations during the 1960s. Blunt, proud and unequivocal, black embodied the sheer racial confidence that the civil rights movement had engendered...
...tobacco industry, used to harsh reports from the Surgeon General, tried to blunt the latest attack with newspaper ads saying that "enough is enough." Said Brennan Dawson, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute: "The report represents an escalation in the antismoking campaign." Surgeon General Koop certainly hopes so. His stated goal is to make the U.S. a "smoke-free society by the year...
That did not happen for Legs Diamond. Despite five years of development, the show that previewed in late October was, in the blunt judgment of co-producer Arthur Rubin, "a disaster." Librettist Harvey Fierstein apologized to the audience at the first performance. Alluding to the practice of testing a show out of town, which Legs skipped because of its complex sets and lighting, Fierstein said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is New Haven...
...quite enjoyable. Cynthia Gibb (who lip-syncs Karen's syrupy hits like Close to You) and Mitchell Anderson are convincing as the sister-brother act. Director Joseph Sargent traces their rise to fame in brisk if superficial strokes. The film (which lists Richard Carpenter as executive producer) is blunt about the troubles the young stars faced: overprotective, underaffectionate parents (Louise Fletcher, Peter Michael Goetz), Richard's drug problems, Karen's growing obsession with losing weight. The scrubbed duo make drug abuse look positively wholesome, but the movie deftly grafts the morbid thrills of a disease-of-the-week drama onto...