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...totally ignored the large body of public testimony by eminent medical experts about the lack of scientific justification for health-warning labels on the products. I thought it was unfair and unbalanced reporting of a complex and important issue. TIME readers deserve better. Louis F. Bantle, Chairman U.S. Tobacco Greenwich, Conn...
...centuries the British have set their clocks by the Royal Greenwich Observatory's world-famous chronometers. The U.S. persuaded the nations of the world to agree in 1884 that the location of the observatory, then on the Thames at Greenwich, should be the site of the imaginary north-south line that marks 0° longitude. Only the French objected, unsuccessfully proposing a navigational line going through the center of Paris. Since then Greenwich mean time and the Greenwich meridian have become universally accepted as the foundation of worldwide timekeeping and navigation...
...never lived in a so-called red state; in fact she obliterates the overcooked red-blue distinction. Although beloved in Bush country, Coulter lives in a New York City apartment, loves expensive Manhattan restaurants, chews Nicorette in church and hardly ever misses the drag queens' Halloween parade in Greenwich Village. She likes to tell people, "I get up at noon and work in my underwear," but it's not actually true--Coulter is rarely up before...
...only moments that achieve any sort of humanity in this movie are those that are probably closer to autobiography than fiction. David Duchovny actually did grow up in Greenwich Village in the 1970s and this fact shines through his otherwise lackluster writing. The portrait he paints of that time and place, as seen through a teenage boy’s eyes, is actually quite convincing...
...audience certainly plays an integral role in the unique atmosphere surrounding the Comedy Studio, whose crowd consists of a fairly even mix of veteran as well as first-time attendees. The audience is Greenwich Village-variety liberal, and for the most part, familiar with the adventurous, avante-garde material that Jenkins encourages. As David Walsh, who routinely performs at the Comedy Studio, states, “The Comedy Studio is the best because of the audience. The audience is always receptive to new ideas...