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Next week the autumn logjam will begin to break, as Hollywood releases the first of a promising mix of films. Three movies head the insiders' early line of likely hits: The Toy, a Richard Pryor comedy; Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman in drag; and 48 Hrs., an Odd Couple cop film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine...
...Village Voice, makes no bones about the anxiety and ambivalence he faced after starting to flirt in earnest with his Jewish roofs, and with the possibility of resuming some sort of observant lifestyle. But at the same time he makes clear--with no apologies-the almost mystical drag of his search...
...aired internationally, in a sort of cold war battle over the airwaves--the kind of show that portrays the evils of communism and the righteous causes of the good old USA. While the voices of campus groups ought never to be silenced or censored. Giamatti is right not to drag the name of a diverse liberal university into that particular realm of international politics...
...necessary on such an issue, and the current negotiations between states would provide for public hearings on the matter. But because Question 3 mandates a formal statewide referendum, a "yes" vote tomorrow could logistically keep Massachusetts out of an agreement with other states. Not only could referenda planning drag on beyond the deadline for the joint approval of the states, but other states have also expressed reservations about dealing with Bay State negotiators, whose bargaining promises could be invalidated by the results of a popular referendum...
...INCREDIBLE how many things could have gone wrong with Working and didn't. Incredible that two and a half hours of taken-front-life monologues about the laborer's lot wouldn't drag, that Harvard students could stand up in front of their friends and roommates and deliver lines like "Sure I'd like to do something other than work in a factory. But if that's all you know how to do, that's what you do" and "Jobs are not big enough for people" without sounding like Soc Stud burnouts. Or, for that matter, that the full-stage...