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NEIL SIMON wrote only one successful play after The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Then he moved to Los Angeles. Prisoner is his ode to New York City, a typical Simon comedy that catalogues the neurotic lives of Mel (Michael Achtman) and Edna (Sarah McPhee) Edison: boy lives with girl, boy loses job, girl gets job, boy has breakdown, boy gets girl. Assaulted by noisy cars, barking dogs, loud neighbors, and Valium that doesn't work, Mel and Edna step into the ring with The City and survive, bruised and battered but still whole--and still suffering. As Mel asks...
...divine natures of music. The results have been gloriously inconclusive. But in the past hundred years scholars have plodded to an unassailable truth: whether it overheats the blood or soothes the savage breast, music is one of history's great growth industries. Technology has electrified the ether: since Edison and Marconi, listeners have increased a billionfold. There is scarcely an Aleut or Patagonian today who cannot flick on a transistor against the shriek of icy winds...
Glenn Moramarco '81, president of the Currier House Committee and Currier CHUL representative, may typify the politically untested students in the class. Having had an eye on politics even before his classmates at J.P. Stevens High in Edison, N.J., voted him "Best Personality" and "Most Likely to Succeed," Monamarco would like to start his political career in the New Jersey state legislature. But ignoring the possible hazards of the "Youngest President Syndrome," he doesn't count out higher aspirations. Modestly declining to be specific, he merely states, "I'd just like to go as far as I can." All things...
...like Boston Edison and you detest the idea of nuclear power within a million megawatts of you, you should be sure to read your entire ballot tomorrow...
...vote could affect Boston Edison's plans--currently before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission--to build a second nuclear power plant near Plymouth. The referendum does not affect either of the two nuclear plants now operating in the state