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...SEEN the ads for The Hitcher on TV or the trailers at the movies, you know that the only real question facing a potential audience member is whether The Hitcher is a "good" B-rate flick or a "bad" B-rate flick. Another slasher film could have taken the urban legend style, Riders on the Storm hitchiker killer motif and made a palatable product for the sanguinary tastes of the nation's youth. But though its premise is good, The Hitcher fails to deliver, and the audience is tediously dragged over the desert highways of this misdesigned film...
IMAGINE A John Harvard facsimile on wheels which would stand up at the flick of a lever and hand out fancy invitations to Harvard Square shoppers...
Friedrich Karl Flick is the reclusive West German owner of a $4 billion industrial empire, a steel, chemical and paper manufacturer that has been controlled by his family for 77 years. His father Friedrich Flick was convicted at Nuremberg of war crimes and served five years in jail before his death in 1972. Last week Flick, 58, announced that he will sell his company to Deutsche Bank. "The decision has been difficult for me," he said. The sale price was estimated to be about $2 billion, which makes it the largest takeover in West German history. Deutsche Bank immediately announced...
...sale follows a major scandal in which the Flick group was alleged to have made millions of dollars' worth of secret political contributions. Former Economics Ministers Otto Lambsdorff and Hans Friderichs are currently facing charges about favorable tax credits made available to Flick. These were allegedly given in exchange for Flick's donations to political parties. A senior company manager, Eberhard von Brauchitsch, has also been implicated in the affair...
...might even say IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Harvard Science Center), but then Jimmy Stewart's already said that. But it's worth saying again, and Capra's classic Christmas flick is worth seeing once every year around holiday/exam time. Stewart plays the small town bank manager who is threatened by the local Grinch in a business suit (Lionel Barrymore...