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Although I may not have made it clear enough in my review, I did catch on to the intended point of most of these shorts: to poke a little absurdist fun at sexual taboos. But my point was that even as satire some of these films, although harmless, do get pretty offensive [in the same way I think spoofs in the National Lampoon, and films like Network go too far]. And it was precisely because I assumed that the need to debunk sexist attitudes, although unfortunately not "universally understood," is at least recognized by many filmgoers in Cambridge, that...
Brown relinquished four hits to the Engineers, who could not solve his puzzling low fastball. After a shaky start, Brown removed the roundhouse curve from his repertoire, and forced harmless groundballs with his knee-high hummers which were gobbled by the all-freshman Crimson infield...
...Costakis collection bears invaluable witness to a vanished moment in Russian culture, long disregarded and suppressed by the Kremlin. That it should now be accepted is perhaps proof that the original impact of these works is lost: they have become history. Art grows harmless before lilerature does, and the fact that artists like Popova and Ivan Klyun now find their way into a museum does nothing to stop the persecution of Russian writers...
Mother has just created a classic double bind, saying yes and no to her daughter at the same time. Most parents use such paradoxical commands occasionally because they are unable to resolve their conflicting feelings. That familiar behavior may seem harmless. But according to a branch of psychiatry known as family therapy, repeated double binding is ordinarily found in families that produce schizophrenics...
...LAKE LEAK. Plutonium from improperly handled wastes of the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Broomfield, Colo., has leaked into the town's Great Western Reservoir. Federal officials insist that the plutonium, one of the most lethal of all nuclear products, is harmless as long as it stays on the bottom of the 40-acre reservoir. But residents of Broomfield-aware that even the tiniest amounts of plutonium in the body can cause cancer-are unconvinced. They have asked the Federal Government for the $30 million the town will have to spend to create a new water supply. Meanwhile...