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...power of media, and Reagan's amnesia, allow yourself a purging experience by diving into Pete Davies dark and witty vision of our degenerate future. Even if it doesn't convince you to stop sucking in mind-destroying pop culture stimulants, The Last Election will keep you off the drunken highways...
...great storytelling and great acting, this week's finest offering is the 1951 John Huston classic, The African Queen (Winthrop House, Harvard). Screen legend and Dewitt look-alike Humphrey Bogart turns in an Oscar-winning performance as a drunken riverboat captain forced to reckon with the virtue of a beautiful missionary, played by Katherine Hepburn. Shot mostly on location in the Dark Continent, The African Queen proves that, in the hands of a superb director, the simplest plots can become high entertainment...
RELIEF RIPPLED momentarily, and Kevin's drunken smirk eased back on his face. But we hadn't counted on Officer Redneck's legal creativity. Putting on his best Defender of the Law face, he informed us of a new state Constitutional code that allowed him to hold minors until our parents personally came to release...
...alternatives" to incarceration, which once inspired social workers and prison reformers, have become the new best hope of many beleaguered judges -- and jailers too. In courts across the nation, people convicted of nonviolent crimes, from drunken driving and mail fraud to car theft and burglary, are being told in effect to go to their rooms. Judges are sentencing them to confinement at home or in dormitory halfway houses, with permission to go to and from work but often no more -- not even a stop on the way home for milk. The sentences may also include stiff fines, community service...
Especially engrossing are Cat's adventures on the road--belting out raunchy songs with a pack of drunken soldiers, murmuring flirtation with Diane, a savvy young barmaid with piercing "triangular" eyes, flinging a hand-grenade which nearly explodes in his face...