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...often that college professors descend from their ivory towers to come to the defense of what some consider pornography. But testimony from academics, including two from Harvard, played a major role in Saturday's Boston Municipal Court ruling that the film "Caligula" is not legally obscene...
...customs officials descend on one's luggage in clusters. Literary material is especially scrutinized ... books opened and the officials settle down to read, often one looking over the other's shoulder, searching for key words to pop out, since their ability to read English is limited. A copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, with its uncompromising portrait of Lenin, was flipped through without incident, but a yellow legal pad on which I had written "KGB -neat shoes"-a reference to being able to spot a secret-service agent by his spruced-up footwear-caused...
...were out foraging for food. Like their primate cousins in the forest, they usually swung gracefully from limb to limb searching out nuts, fruits and berries. But this day was different. A fierce rainstorm had knocked all their favorites off the branches, and the Ramas, alas, were forced to descend from the trees to find something...
...three years since that victory party, the Rebel forces have somehow wound up hiding from a revitalized Empire on the planet Hoth, which is nothing more than an oversized ice cube. Darth Vader and the Empire quickly discover the Rebellion's snow hideout and descend upon the planet with a force of huge, camel-like tanks...
...drove them up to 90 m.p.h. Then, as they crossed the Great Lakes, Maxie fell ill from lack of oxygen and too many cookies. Bundled in two sleeping bags against the subzero cold, Maxie switched to pure oxygen and recovered. As they neared the East Coast, they began to descend, too fast at first. Said Maxie: "The irony was that despite the danger, this was the nicest part of the flight. At about 3,000 ft., you can hear all the sounds of earth-people talking, car and truck motors. It was very romantic...