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Sources close to the office of government and community affairs said yesterday they fear that Rosen's addition might make Harvard's office even more distant from local issues. The office currently includes two people who deal with Cambridge-Harvard relations and one who concentrates on relations with Boston...
Percy makes this preposterous coming together seem as natural and plausible as a handshake on the street. In all of its many convolutions, The Second Coming is a meticulously crafted narrative, unobtrusively folding the distant past into a busy present. Nobody writes about the New South of condominiums, shopping centers and doubleknits with more authority than Percy. Will meets a man who is about to sell his house in Georgia. He will then retire to the newfangled splendors of Carolina and "begin a new life in his garden home in Emerald Isle Estates, watch Monday-night football, do isometrics...
DIED. Sharif Abdel Hamid Sharaf, 41, Prime Minister of Jordan since December 1979 and a strong Arab nationalist who was one of King Hussein's closest advisers; of a heart attack; in Amman. A distant cousin of Hussein's, he became Ambassador to Washington and the U.N. after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following his appointment as chief of the royal Cabinet in 1976 he had been a hard-line advocate of Jordan's close ties to other Arab states and to the Palestinians...
Director Alan Rudolph, whose Welcome to L.A. examined the West Coast music scene from a perspective so distant it seemed almost Martian, has fashioned Roadie into a kind of live-action Road Runner cartoon and added the exuberant bad taste of Russ Meyer's redneck sex movies. Roadie has bar brawls, earth quakes, sloppy eaters, hair-rollered harridans, fire-engine-red panties and lots of loud rock 'n' roll. In its second hour, the movie loses some of this mad enchantment: Guest Stars Alice Cooper and Deborah Harry (Blondie) do not jell with Rudolph's genially...
After the famine that killed an estimated quarter of a million people in West Africa in the early '70s, the 36-member United Nations World Food Council vowed to create a world without hunger within a decade. Today that ambitious goal seems more distant than ever. Over the decade. Africa has become the world's hungriest continent. Food production has increased by about 1% a year, while its population has grown nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization...