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That brand of political repartee provides the breeziest moments in a featherweight thriller called The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, based on John Godey's best-selling novel, which was obviously written expressly as film fodder. Screenwriter Peter Stone (Charade) has grafted some reflexively cynical New York City comedy onto Godey's book. Most of the characters in the movie quite rightly have a hard time taking the hijacking seriously...
...science of acupuncture. Why these points are not illustrated in some acupuncturist's manual and why they should drive men into quite such acute frenzies of greed are matters that the film makers have chosen to keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply. The star is Joe Don Baker, a sort of upright Francis the Talking Mule, who appeared in Walking Tall wielding a baseball bat and busting heads. Here, as a Hong Kong soldier-of-fortune, he betrays an enthusiasm for breaking glass, either by shattering windshields...
Besides cable TV, the police and political infighting, the lieu-of-taxes payments and expansion of the city's two large universities, the rising property tax rate and the distribution of the city's ever scarcer poverty funds among the lower class ethnic neighborhoods should provide fodder for the campaign. Landlords may unite behind one or more candidates in an effort to overthrow the city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively...
...Israeli broadcasts or, more often, by stories passed along on the Soviet Jewish grapevine. Laments a young mother of two: "They said you didn't buy eggs in Israel. They simply lay about in the streets." Others are convinced that they had been lured to Israel as cannon fodder for its wars. "It's the fault of the American Jewish millionaires," says Tbilisi Shopkeeper Joseph Mamishva-lov. "They pay their money but want us to bear the brunt. A boil is good on somebody else's body...
...December 1, the second on Dec. 21, 1929. A month later, the incident came to light in the Boston papers. The firing of the women, as the initial effects of the stock market crash were beginning to be felt, and just days before Christmas at that, would have been fodder for the Boston papers. The fact that they were given honorable discharges shortly after the State Minimum Wage Board had ordered Harvard to raise their wages from 35 to 37 cents an hour was enough to set off a barrage of criticism in the press. The Crimson followed suit, angered...