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...intriguing one--Reynolds plays Buddy Evans, the manager of Madison Square Garden and the most eligible bachelor in all of New York, according to one of his former flingees. Wine and women flow with his every move, his employees click their heels at his snap of a finger and businessmen who try to deal with him are left on the sidelines. He even gets to play basketball with his lawyer's kid on the Garden floor. But something is missing from Buddy the bon vivant's life. At the age of 44, the man who has everything realizes that...
...vacuous. But at its best, difficult material is portrayed very graphically." A segment on sensory psychology is literally a cliffhanger: a man uses his tactile sense to claw his way to safety while climbing. Afterward, diagrams with flashing electronic lines show how impulses speed along the nerve path from finger to brain...
Nova is not content merely to wag its finger. Having identified the problems, the program suggests solutions-and sounds a tocsin. In Switzerland, a country with one-tenth the fire-casualty rate of the U.S., the show notes, chimney sweeps are required to clean and inspect every building regularly. "Many say that Americans would not tolerate the rules and regulations and residential inspections of the Swiss," viewers are advised. "Americans, it seems, would rather burn.'' -By Philip Faflick
...social conscience. Bonar Thompson, an anarchist Hyde Park orator whom Foot befriended, believed so strongly in his own independence and in the immorality of the British political system "that he had never helped to sustain that system with so much as a single movement of his hand or finger." Another radical admired by Foot is Thomas Paine, whose reformist writings, shunned for many years in America, grew so popular in Europe that "he gained an international notoriety such as only pop stars have today." And with his literary heroes, including Swift, William Hazlitt, and Daniel Defoe, Foot's literary expertise...
Chafin was accused of assaulting Steven R. Verr '79 on February 10. Verr, now a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, testified yesterday that, after he called Chafin a "lackey," the chief jabbed him with his index finger, grabbed him in a headlock, and "pummeled...