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...Cotton Club is just one of a growing number of Hollywood films that are packing them in at the video stores after playing to empty seats at the Bijou. Crimes of Passion, Ken Russell's flamboyantly seedy sex drama, was a flop at the box office last October, but has earned nearly $3.6 million in cassette sales thus far. Dune, a big-budget bomb last Christmas, has made $7.5 million in sales to video stores and has been on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 13 weeks. Even the most famous box-office fiasco of all, Michael Cimino's Heaven...
...choosing to cover protests rather than events probing the South African issue's complexity The Crimson's recent flip-flop on its editorial position toward divestment demonstrates that the issues involved are indeed complex and that students can benefit from further examination and discussion of the South African dilemma. The Institute of Politics will be sponsoring two more panel discussions on South Africa--I hope the rest of the Harvard community, it not The Crimson will be present. Peter T. Gelfman...
...while life's absurdity can be tiring and annoying, it also produces its pleasures. Calvin Trillin is one of them. Among columnists today he has the most highly developed sense of how the swirling currents of history are usually the scene of the common mans belly-flop. It is a talent that prompts him to write sentences like, "My grandfather grew up in one of those European towns that used to change countries every week or ten days and the only claim to distinction I ever heard him make was that he had deserted two separate armies...
...court's flip-flop prompted dismay not only among local officials but also among some court observers who think that such an abrupt and emphatic reversal on so important an issue makes a mockery of the judicial function. "This shows the influence of personalities over the rule of law," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It tends to undermine public confidence in the stability of our justice system." Dissenter Justice Lewis Powell was similarly troubled. "Respect for the authority of this court," he wrote, is "not served by the precipitous overruling of multiple precedents...
Adam has made life tough for Coleco. The company will take an estimated $110 million write-off against 1984 earnings because of the flop. Indeed, Adam might have driven Coleco to its knees were it not for the company's success with another product: the Cabbage Patch Kids. Coleco last year sold $500 million worth of Cabbage Patcheria, and the pudgy dolls have been the hottest toys for the past two Christmas seasons. Coleco hopes that it will now do better by staying in the cabbage patch...