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...HUPD and Cambridge rescue units respond to an out-of-control "Duck, Duck, Goose" game in Winthrop House. One student was knocked unconscious...
...Bangkok that Richard first hears about a legendary beach from a shady character known only as Daffy Duck (Robert Carlyle). The beach is a paradise that is both hidden and renowned, a tranquil space unfettered and uncontaminated by the trappings of the present. No one knows whether the famed piece of real estate truly exists, but a strung-out Daffy claims to have lived there and been ruined by the experience. Daffy leaves Richard a map to the island as his last act before committing suicide. Strangely detached from Daffy's violent death, but intrigued by the mystery...
...kids to be just like them. Social-guidance films, the postwar spawn of progressive educators and Grade-D auteurs, taught kids how to be popular and to say no, to think fast and to drive slowly. These beguiling curios have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised by cultural critic Ken Smith in a droll, provocative study and accompanying video, Mental Hygiene...
Indeed, if one were of the paranoid mind-set fomented by duck-and-cover cartoons and the Sid Davis oeuvre, one might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...
This lame duck just keeps on quacking. And now that President Clinton has delivered an ambitious budget proposal, the Republican-controlled Congress has to decide how far to put its foot down - and how much to risk alienating an electorate about to go to the polls to pick a new commander in chief. It was all there Monday morning - Clinton, chart at his back and Magic Marker in hand, announcing a host of Great Society-esque initiatives, including generous spending on education and health benefits for the poor. "Election years are the best time for a president...