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Luckily, Harvard Square seems to have dodged the recent onslaught of identical chain book stores. The Square's bookstore owners know that Harvard's, shall we say, "intellectually motivated" clientele know their Tom Wolfe from their Thomas Wolfe, and usually choose Jack Kerouac over Jackie Collins...
...bankrupt-bound Allied and Federated department store groups -- the properties of debt-driven Canadian raider Robert Campeau. The problems of retailers were underscored last week when Ames Department Stores, which entered bankruptcy in April as a result of an ill-fated $800 million takeover of the Zayre chain, said it would shut 221 stores and lay off 17,500 employees, or nearly one-third of its work force...
Almost certainly, an unintentional blast would detonate only the chemical explosives that, if fired deliberately, would compress the warhead's plutonium cores and touch off an unstoppable atomic chain reaction. Some experts see a slim chance of a nuclear explosion in the case of the W-79 artillery shell, but the far more likely result would be a chemical blast that could release deadly radioactive plutonium or uranium from the cores. The safety problems, disclosed last week by the Washington Post, were promptly confirmed in public congressional hearings. The difficulties seem sure to complicate immensely a review under...
...only truly strategic thought the U.S. Government has about the 21st century: a Germany "anchored" in NATO is less likely to cause trouble than one that is neutral and nonaligned. Note the verb, with its metaphorical suggestion not only of safety from rough seas but also of a heavy chain and benevolent captivity...
...rated X in the U.S. It's about the fun that actors can have with characters named Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), Perdita Durango (Rossellini) and Mr. Reindeer (Morgan Shepherd). It's about obsessive imagery and compulsive behavior: half the people walk on crutches, and just about everybody chain-smokes, sometimes two cigarettes at a time. And, aptly for a film shown in the living movie museum of Cannes, Wild at Heart is Lynch's fond homage to The Wizard of Oz. Lula clicks her red slippers to get out of a jam. Her mom (played with lubricious abandon by Dern...