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...surreal murder mystery directed by the German Wim Wenders; The Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola's Olympian disregard for the bottom line led to deep financial trou ble. Last spring, Hammett, which had endured a dozen rewrites on its way to filming, was shut down before completion...
...insensitivity of white students would be absurd if it weren't so sad and insidious: the signs of the times indicate that avowed liberals are more interested in their private good than in the good of the community. The prevalent attitude constitutes not so much racism as a disregard for minority issues. As long as the majority of students and faculty here is unconcerned with race relations in general and Third World students' needs in particular, little progress in either sphere seems possible...
Even if Yale continues to disregard financial need in accepting students, it may not be capable of meeting all students' needs in future years...
...there the typewriter has stayed, with an all but total disregard for the way hands and people are put together. The keyboard favors southpaws by placing most frequently used letters on the left. Thumbs are underused; weak, and less supple, little fingers must shift from upper to lower case. In a day's work, a good typist's fingertips travel twelve to 20 miles...
Under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, however, a federal judge has the power to look through state law questions and, if they are evasions of federal law, to disregard them...