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Under Howard Deutch's languid direction, Candy performs the slow burn of a put-upon Mr. Middle America, and Aykroyd perfects his impression (first exhibited in the 1981 film Neighbors) of Richard Nixon as a used-car salesman. It would be nice if these acute comics had achieved the intimate hostility of cousins who rasp on each other's nerves. But Hughes cannot be bothered here with surprise or subtlety, so his antagonists have the fatigued familiarity of sitcom characters toward the end of a long run. Next time, Hughes might consider a longer gestation period for his script...
Yesterday's protestors asked to see MIT president Paul Gray, who was not in his office during the incident. "They told Provost John Deutch that they had 'a grievance with EG&G.' He spoke to them and then the police ushered them out pretty quickly," MIT spokesman Robert DiIorio said yesterday...
...Provost John Deutch said that he made the decision not to buy a supercomputer, which would cost about $10 million spread out over five years, after he received a letter from Acting Secretary of Commerce Bruce Smart that expressed concern over Japanese bidding practices...
Despite the university's decision to cancel bidding, MIT Provost John Deutch insists that MIT was not pressured into the decision. "The image that the federal government is a bully and that MIT is a wimp is just not true. We alone made a judgement on the issue," Deutch said. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA...
...well, Hughes was both an overgrown kid, with spiky hair and high-top basketball shoes, and a big brother. He encouraged his bright young actors to improvise dialogue and make suggestions about the films' structures. Says Howard Deutch, who directed Hughes' screenplay of Pretty in Pink, "I've never seen a writer who is so willing to adapt his dialogue and script." (Thanks in part to urgings from his cast, a female-flesh scene was removed from The Breakfast Club.) Hughes took the youngsters to rock concerts, hosted cast dinners or simply made himself available to listen. But in this...