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...should retreat from earlier, more glorious methods of affixion is unclear, and Harvard students, being clever folk, have devised several ways to circumvent the problem. One favorite is to place a dab or two of poster gum around the edges of the poster, in order to give the impression that all is in accordance with College regulations, and then liberally apply masking tape closer to the middle of the poster...
...takes more than half an hour to peel off the gauze, dab antiseptic on the livid flesh, and replace the bandages. Tor Kham, who never says a word, grows paler. When the procedure is over, he takes a moment, really no more than a deep breath, then places a hand on the boy's lips to silence him. His hand falls to the boy's chest and lingers there, an offer of consolation. After another nurse arrives and administers morphine, the boy drifts to sleep. His brother pulls the blanket back over his bandages...
...knows the refrain as the opening of a TV-commercial jingle for Rice Krispies cereal. Now the old standby is getting play once again as part of a popular new record called Tee Vee Toons: The Commercials. The album features such Madison Avenue jingles as Brylcreem's A Little Dab'll Do Ya, Alka- Seltzer's Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz and Noxzema's The Stripper (Take It All Off). Since its release last month, the album of musical doggerel has sold more than 100,000 copies. The Commercials even appears on Billboard's chart of the 200 top-selling record...
Keep in mind that Bok is president of Harvard University, not Harvard College. Even though his office is smack-dab in the middle of the Yard, Bok runs the entire mammoth institution, which includes a $4 billion endowment and eight graduate schools...
There is one miscalculation -- a libidinous brother, heavily played by Jon Lovitz -- but it is ultimately redeemed by the four dab hands who wrote this comedy. Richard Benjamin has directed a pleasant holiday surprise. The fable is sweet without being cloying, light without being too airy, suspenseful and sexy without being so much so that a parent has to distract himself with a lot of guidance...