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That conflict begins simply: Matt wants Sally to come away with him, and Sally wants Matt to leave alone. But as Wilson's smoothly polished conversational writing advances, with plenty of one-liners and an occasional sight gag. Talley's Folly turns from a straightforward romantic sit-com into a much more sensitive character evocation. Like a stripped-down Ibsen drama, it forces its two characters to excavate the most airless tunnels of their memories...
...drops (Things will never let up for Luciano now that he's published) pile up (I'll never forget breakfast with Al and Casper) on each other overwhelming (Sissy has always known how to tell a joke) all other forms of expression, the name dropper's ruin is com-(Charlie and Di are such a perfect couple) plete...
...remove from the vehicle's weight. In 1977 GM devised the RTS ill, a flashy bus with clean lines and an optional 1 wheelchair lift. Grumman, the company that built o the lunar landing module, bought Flxible and produced a low-slung, 26,000-lb., 48-seat bus, com-Splete with a kneeling mechanism for the handicapped and an electric sign that beamed HAVE A GOOD DAY. Grumman's Flxible 870 with its light 350-lb. A-frame undercarriage began rolling off the assembly line in April...
...ORIGINAL La Cage Aux Folles was a harmless, if subtly naughty delight. In fact, it could have made an interesting TV sit-com: the wacky misadventures of a loving and long-suffering nightclub owner and his zany wife, the star of the club's act. The twist, of course, was that husband and wife were both male, the wife a flamboyant transvestite. Still, Edouard Molinaro directed the film with a light touch, making Renato and Albin just another daffy couple who had a way of getting themselves into embarrassing situations. La Cage Aux Folles caricatured most straights as such mean...
...issue, questioned the efficacy and even the constitutional! ty of some of his solutions. "You don't solve the problem by eliminating procedural safeguards," said Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. He and others point to studies showing the great difficulty of predicting which suspects will actually com mit additional offenses if released while awaiting trial. Critics of the speech also objected to the idea of permitting convicts to file habeas corpus petitions only for miscarriages of justice, and not for technical errors. One reason: such petitions account for only a small portion of a court's work load...