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...Four Saints in Three Acts, fashioning deceptively simple, homey music out of "Pigeons on the grass alas." His 1937 score for Filling Station, with its truck drivers, state troopers and gun-toting gangsters, became the first successful all-American ballet. Although serious composers generally have shunned film scores as hack work, he produced seven of them, and in 1949 collected a Pulitzer Prize for one, Louisiana Story. As music critic of the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1954, he skewered arrogance and stupidity in the musical establishment with a perceptive gusto unknown since the critical heyday of George...
Halloween II is in Dolby Stereo, and it's a lavish, epic hack'em-up, the Deer Hunter of the horror genre. The Shape, Michael Meyers, has become a mythic Bogeyman, and he's practically indestructible. He's also a one-man charnel-house--there wasn't a drop of blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash...
...takes a lot of time and dedication--it has virtually wiped out our social lives." Almost as bad, the sophomore admits to having trouble finding time to study." Meanwhile, Maximoff, also of Eliot House, is headed for Law School next year and Munatones and Roberts are trying to hack it in the Biology Department along with Tyler. And what does water polo coach STEVE PIKE think of his four players? "I think it's an outrageous thing to do," Pike says, "But I am in favor of it entirely. It might hurt the water polo team a little...
...devious channels, follows a more attractive package: an offer to the writer to edit "a definitive work on the nature of terrorism"-based on the newly discovered journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur of many aliases-Zander, Brochet, Hecht, Luccio-all of which, in various languages, mean pike, the fish...
...Zeitgeist than Phil Donahue. Before the sumptuous Reagan Inaugural, Barry Goldwater objected: "When you've got to pay $2,000 for a limousine (four-day rental required at $500 per), $7 to park and $2.50 to check your coat, at a time when most Americans can't hack it, that's ostentatious." A corollary complaint holds that it is at the very least unbecoming for Reagan, who is slashing at the federal budget like a samurai, to put on such a display of serene opulence in the details of his personal life...