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...facet, however crucial, of its protagonist's life. This lightly fictionalized autobiography is Writer-Director-Star Frank Ripploh's first feature film, and it is as ostensibly artless as a home movie. In the film, Frank is a well-liked teacher in a Berlin secondary school, a fond son, an amateur film maker and an energetic participant in the city's homosexual night life. His lover Bernd (Bernd Broaderup, who took the same role in Frank's real life) is a sweet-souled stay-at-home who cooks and keeps house and, in moments of stress...
...football team goes for meat and potatoes and anything else they can get their hands on. The women's basketball team is know for its predilection for Cahaly's ice cream. And the lithe, lean and weight-conscious members of the women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL...
Loeb's most notorious attack came during the 1972 presidential campaign. The Union Leader published a spurious letter claiming that Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine laughed at an ethnic slur aimed at Franco-Americans, and an item suggesting that Muskie's wife was overly fond of cocktails. The candidate's tearful denunciation of Loeb outside the Union Leader offices, captured on network television, was thought to have doomed Muskie's presidential chances...
News of the deal surfaced just hours before John Chancellor wound up NBC's Nightly News last Friday with a fond farewell to his colleague: "As a writer, he is simply the best. As a stylist, he is impossible to imitate." Quite true, but Brinkley's NBC bosses seemed almost to have forgotten that during the past year. In fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against...
Wall Street's airline industry watchers agree. Says Analyst Julius Maldutis of Salomon Bros.: "We believe that the current schedule of fewer flights will become institutionalized. Load factors will rise sharply, fuel consumption will fall, and price wars and discount fares will become a fond and distant memory." Analysts estimate that airlines, which collectively earned only $75 million in 1980, could earn $400 million to $600 million this year, and perhaps as much as $1 billion next year...