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...forums, which have been held in different parts of the city once a week for the past month, allow representatives of pro and con groups to speak on the referendum and allow citizens to ask them questions. The most recent forum included panelists from the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, the Committee Against Research Bans (CARB), the Bay State Center for Economic Conversion. Mobilization for Survival, and the council for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze...
...been beaten out in the high earnestness sweepstakes. Meyer concedes his movie "has a minimum of imagination" but thinks Dr. Strangelove is "distilled through comedy," which presumably means that his own enterprise, being so conspicuously short of humor, serves some loftier social purpose. This type of cultural con is a piece of undiluted show-biz self-protection, and a good thing too. Political immediacy is just about all The Day After has going for it. By any standards other than social, it is a terrible movie...
...York police last night arrested a young con artist whose year-long trail of deception took him through a string of Harvard dormitories and who apparently secured over night visits at several Manhattan apartments by posing as a Harvard student...
...fact, Bond followers will probably register some deja vu in Never Say Never Again, whose hotline is almost identical to one of Connery's earlier efforts, Thunderball. In that offering, the con-partisan bad guys, SPECTRE, captured a etched U.S. Air Force plane with nuclear missiles a board and then ransomed it to the world. This name, SPECTRE is up to evil doings once again, filtrating NATO's strategic bomber command with a turncoat U.S. Air Force officer, sending two cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads into the Atlantic--where, again, the evil group is waiting to claim and ransom...
...honor in the general's ailed sortie that cannot be found in the easy conquests of Angels at the Ritz, a tale exploring the limits of suburban society and marital entropy. A husband returns o a spouse-swapping party after taking his wife home. Her subdued reaction con-ains the author's gloomy assessment of the situation, if not of the entire age of affluence and permissiveness. "The outer suburb was what it was, so was the shell of middle age; she didn't complain because it would be silly to complain when you were...