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They had come to see whether the Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library ought to share in a $3 million grant that would wire it to the Internet. Donald Kaplan, who works for the library system, recalls that the emissaries from Redmond, Washington, were dubious: "One of them asked, 'Will this be like the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a Coke bottle falls out of the sky and no one knows what to do with it?'" Kaplan shrugged off the gibe, saying, "No, it'll be like the movie Field of Dreams--build it, and they will...
What they get instead is a surrogate maiden aunt. Her name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...
...children will have better opportunities because they will have a better education." But that won't happen without competition, Dole argues. Parents, he says, should be given vouchers for use at any school they want, including private and parochial institutions. That idea (which Roman Catholic voters love) is constitutionally dubious, but that's not why Clinton rejects...
Once upon a time, a 153-lb. chemistry teacher named Julius Kelp wanted to grow big and strong, or anyway be smooth and cool--sort of like Frank Sinatra on a bad ego day--and in his lab he concocted a formula that permitted him to realize that dubious dream. Thus was The Nutty Professor, central work in the Jerry Lewis oeuvre, born...
...time. Kendall Square Cinema Hip art flicks, an espresso bar, and faux-art-deco interior make this the most chichi theater in town. After getting off at the Kendall-MIT stop, you have to cut through the Marriot, negotiate a deathly intersection, cross train tracks, and trudge through the dubious and probably health-threatening wastelands and parking lots of Genzyme. Good Luck. Coolidge Corner This non-profit independent theater sports a huge, old fashioned screen and shows benefit screenings of independent films, local filmmakers, and the Sick and Twisted Animation festival. It's in Brookline, which means you'd have...