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...good film--at least a bearable one. The idea of an eccentric scientist trying to clone his long dead wife bounces like a solid premise for a light comedy. Similarly, the tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements in the character of the tastefully crazed academic...
...Monetarists have long advocated steady money growth as a way of guarding against inflation. A leading contender in this camp is Wayne Angell, an economics professor at Ottawa University in Kansas. Angell, whose nomination has been urged by Kansas Senator Robert Dole, has a firsthand understanding of the credit crunch in the farm belt. He is a part-time farmer, and, together with his brother, owns a small bank in Pleasanton, Kans., and a second in Hume...
...search-and-destroy method of then Secretary of State Haig. "He grasps the jar firmly with both hands," noted Baldrige about Haig, "peers with great intensity into its depths and searches until he finds two red jelly beans. These he pops into his mouth, and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion. The man just doesn't like the color...
Around 700 people a day are now moving into Florida, and the state is caught in an inexorable conflict between progress and indigestion. At Boot Key, almost everyone decided the crunch had caught them. "All he had to do was tell us what he was planning," said a former regular Tuesday afternoon bridge player. "But not only could we not get a commitment, we felt intimidated." The camaraderie of a community had been destroyed. The exodus began...
Richard D. Jaeger, director of admissions at Dartmouth College, said that because of the new mailing date officials there "wer not able to do the fine tuning and screening" of admission candidates they had done in past years. "We are really feeling the crunch this year" he added...