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Depending on the mood of the bouncer, Caroline may or may not get into the Boston bar of her choice. Dave Centrella, a bartender and former bouncer at the Hong Kong, says two picture i.d.'s or a driver's license are necessary to go "bowling". "I used to use fake i.d.'s myself," he says, "so I know all the tricks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake I.D.'s: Easy to Come By, Harder to Use | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

...occur when Maxie and Jan struggle for use of the body. When Close is boring and dull, we know that Jan is in control; when she is loud and obnoxious and talks like an odd synthesis of Mae West and Betty Boop, we know Maxie is in the driver's seat. There are some funnyish scenes when Maxie takes over at inopportune moments, like when Jan is at a society fundraiser, or when she is in bed with Nick, but her character is simply not interesting enough to keep these scenes alive...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Maxie Misses By a Mile | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Student Productions Assoc., Freshmen and Varsity Crew, Intramural coordinator, Handicap Van Driver, Mathering Heights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1985 Candidates for Harvard Class Marshal | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...waits for the sound of Big Ben, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill finds his mind straying "back across the scarring years." A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." Wounded Ambulance Driver Ernest Hemingway, recalling a successful offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Peace a Stillness Heard Round the World | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...certain highly enjoyable level, After Hours is the year's best shaggy- dog story. But it is also a subtle exercise in comedic and cinematic stylization by Director Martin Scorsese. In films as varied as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy, he has established himself as our leading poet-anthropologist of the contemporary urban landscape, an artist with a special feeling for the near psychopathic outsider, battering brutally but ineptly on the doors of bourgeois normality. In this movie, working on a $3.5 million shoestring, he has cunningly reversed himself. For Joseph Minion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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