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...sought Susan (played by Madonna, whose affectlessness in the face of adversity may or may not constitute acting but is marvelously comic). Find herself pursued by one of organized crime's less organized branches. Fall into a loft and a love affair with the projectionist from a kung fu grind house. Find work as a gloriously addled magician's assistant. Get mistaken by the police for a prostitute. In other words, there is more to Roberta's modest attempt at an afternoon's adventure than she bargained...
...wife, Joyce (Maggic Smith), never ceases to grind this fact into Gilbert's muddled brain. Gilbert vainly tries to advance himself as a chiropodist, i.e. someone who scrapes corns and fungus off the bottoms of other's feet, but he attracts the hatred of the local surgeon, Dr. Swaby (Denholm Elliott), who unceremoniously boots him out of his office. At this point Gilbert decides to go undercover...
Thanks to the new legislation, the Two-Thirds Twist will grind to a halt in 1989. Until then, the Registrar's Office will compute students' honors according to each set of rules, awarding the higher degree where the outcomes differ. Somehow, it's hard to conceive of the new system working to any one individual's advantage--but it should work to everyone's collective advantage, eliminating the loopholes by which some undergraduates cop inflated degrees...
...tired of the daily grind of wrestling--the pressure to produce and lose the weight. He'd been doing it for so long," says grappler John Zilkosky. "He didn't choose Harvard to wrestle for that he could have gone to Penn State...
...Administration can also look forward to an uphill grind in removing itself from the passenger-railroad business. The fiscal 1986 budget that President Reagan sent to Congress last week proposes to cut all Government subsidies for Amtrak. The move would save $717 million next year and, according to Dole, about $8 billion over the next decade. It would also probably bring an end to passenger trains on such long-haul routes as Chicago- San Francisco and New York-Savannah...