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...hero, Julius (Kevin J. O'Connor) is a stuporous New York City punk in high-top Keds and a greasy leather jacket, who has just lost his job and wants to become a musician. Somehow he convinces a bandleader, Keith Burns (Buster Poindexter, a.k.a. David Johansen) to give him his "big break" if he can locate a reclusive acoustic guitar maker, Elmore Silk (Harris Yulin), who has mysteriously disappeared from the New York music scene...
First of all, is the disappearance of an acoustic guitar maker really the best premise for a rock-'n'-roll quest film? Buster Poindexter's band, which gets to play for about 15 seconds, uses an electric guitarist anyway, and you can hardly hear him under all the brass. In addition, Julius himself, who gets a chance at one point to croon a bit of a folk song, proves himself an impossibly bad musician, so a "big break" hardly seems in order for him even if he could find Elmore Silk...
...number like 2.3, the national average of children per family. (The .3 would be a party with warm beer and no music). As part of the new leaf, the deans invested the Senior Tutors with additional powers and a new title, Allston Burr Senior Tutor and Dean Wharmer Party-Buster, in honor of the famous dean who brought Faber College's Delta House under control...
...Soviet Union has what Pentagon officials describe as the "world's only deployed ASAT system," but it is primitive in concept and ineffective. Soviet ground-based ASAT lasers are expected to be in effect long before space-based ones. The U.S. ASAT program involves launching an 18-ft. satellite buster from a high- flying F-15 aircraft, but it is plagued by problems. Moreover, the Air Force now expects the fledgling system to cost $5.3 billion -- more than an aircraft carrier. Nonetheless, argues U.S. Vice Chief of Staff General John Piotrowski, "there's no question in my mind that...
...with a match, burning my fingers on the first try, dropping it on the second. I finally connected flame to fuse, trembling in anticipation of a blow-up in my face. BOOM. A flaming pink ball shot out. I could feel the explosive force as I clenched the "Thunder Buster" roman candle tube, and I began to aim thundering blasts of white, green and pink at the battalion of surrounding trees--my own sandlot Star Wars...