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Jeff S. Martin '82, the Lampoon's president, said yesterday he has already received several calls from "people curious about grants." He added, "Please tell people to stpo calling...
From their seats, Illinois Senator Charles Percy and Sol Linowitz, Carter's former Middle East envoy, peered forward, curious about the Presidents...
...hours that followed, as wire service, radio, newspaper and television reporters scrambled for more information in the face of a virtual news blackout in Cairo (airports closed, satellite transmissions embargoed, the government silent), a curious thing happened...
...Didion. Working from Dunne's novel, the screenwriters apparently felt obliged not to graft any artificial eloquence onto characters who would not normally speak that way. Which is fine. The problems arise when Dunne and Didion substitute a peculiar, grunting short-hand that limits the characters and leaves the curious unenlightened. The poor dialogue, combined with the writers' need to explain a complicated and ever-changing plot, result in a dusultory and lifeless narrative...
...dark-walnut-paneled Ottawa courtroom was packed with government lawyers, bureaucrats and a few curious law students last week as the nine black-robed justices of Canada's Supreme Court filed in to deliver a historic verdict on the country's future. When Chief Justice Bora Laskin began to read, there was a moment of confusion. A special sound system failed, and his words were barely audible to a nationwide television audience. But the impact of his message was clear enough. At the end of a five-month courtroom fight between the federal government of Canadian Prime Minister...