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...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
...whole week, it has been hot. And there are not too many ways to get away from the heat. You can walk around outside, because it is usually cooler out there, or go to the Brattle and watch a W. C. Fields movie you have seen three times already on television, or you can sleep in Lamont, just lie down and sleep, because it is air-conditioned there...
...labyrinthine complications of the script use birth control pills for comic fuel the way French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes...
...tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen-age offspring to make six cigarettes...
Smith got out of the cooler in time for Barry's major promotion of the evening. Terrier defenseman Hinch planted his elbow in Bob Fredo's face and when Barry was nonplussed he used the tactic on three more Crimson skaters. Everyone in the full house saw a fight was brewing except the referees, and at 16:30 it exploded...