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...three Independent seats will probably doom the lay-off policy implemented by the current CCA-dominated school committee. That policy blocked the layoff of minority and many younger teachers; the Independents campaigned on a pledge of lay-off by strict seniority...
...smoke). In Time Bandits, Gilliam is still the innovative graphic artist who brings strange worlds to extravagant life but cannot animate his actors. And he is still blowing smoke in the audience's face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less welcome than ignored. He will have more fun holding Time Bandits at arm's length-in the movie's illustrated screenplay, published by Doubleday, and available at a price just slightly more than the amount Gilliam...
...welcoming speech, Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared: "I would like to tell all the prophets of doom and gloom to come to Jerusalem and see all the shining eyes. Then they would know that Israel is not alone." Among those applauding were Christians from Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and India, none of which even has diplomatic relations with Israel. However, a few religious Israelis, foes of Christian missionaries in the Holy Land, were less than delighted...
...guise sympathetic to the audience. But the actor strengthens in the second half of the opera, after Macheath has made his decision to visit the whores on Thursday as usual, knowing the police are after him. He acquires the stature that comes with a man headed compulsively to his doom: Bellucci dispenses with Romanticism, as Macheath himself is stripped by circumstance...
...Except that Villanueva bobbled and then booted Turner Swan's snap, and Cornell defensive tackle Steve Duca fell on the ball at the Harvard six. It seemed that once again the big play--remember the blocked-punt touchdown by Holy Cross--would spell Harvard's doom...