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...Somebody's trying to poon the `Poon," Dave said. David J. Kennedy `93, writer, orator, and effete ne'er-do-well, was standing before me in one of his tiffs. He let out a huff of indignation, mussing his debate jock/skate rat bangs. He handed me a crude flyer which he had ripped off a kiosk. It read, "Come to the Harvard Lampoon's Fourth Annual Head of the Charles Prep School Open House. Refreshments served, admission tips offered. Just knock!" Beneath, a crude map invited every Groton, Exeter and Andover refugee to beat a path to our pari-colored...
...would cost tens of thousands of dollars and extend his life marginally. Hillary asked why. The answer: Because there was no way to turn him away. Later, a journalist asked a sensitive question: If the old man hadn't been admitted, would it have been a form of rationing, er, "prioritizing"? This time the President answered, knowing the question was really about his own plan. "I'm not just trying to be the tooth fairy here," he said. "Every system has some rationing. The system we're in now severely rations care in all kinds of ways...
Besides the Sandler scene, the movie has two outstanding humorous metaphors...er, comedic moments. One is a home movie sequence during which we see Beldar and Prymaat's precious "young one," Connie, reach maturity. There are all the obligatory black-and-white clips of the typical American young family, with a twist. Beldar, like any proud father, is seen tossing his baby into the air. He just throws her 40 or 50 feet higher than most dads would...
...movie ends just as its one joke is petering out. The aliens fit in, and the world...er, universe is a better place. In short, "Coneheads" is a genuinely funny movie which would make a good activity after an evening at a local house of intake (restaurant...
...wedding of Prince Akishino and of Emperor Akihito's ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. While all this background proved to be essential grounding in reporting our story on next week's marriage of Crown Prince Naruhito and former diplomat Masako Owada, it did not quite reach into the, er, heart of the matter. "The topic of most interest to everyone was why a Harvard- and Oxford-educated upper- middle-class woman decided to give up her career and marry into the imperial family," says Makihara. "Only Masako Owada knows the answer to that question, and she wasn't talking...