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...Harvard must recognize that its obligation to the City of Cambridge goes far beyond education. The University's activities as Cambridge's largest property holder, landlord and number-one corporate citizen profoundly effect the lives of many Cantibrigians...
...players, the director and the screenwriter would all like us to believe that it does, and by the film's conclusion, you probably will. Letter to Brezhnev won't change your concept of the cinema, poorly shot and spliced as it is, but it's a good hand-holder and thoroughly enjoyable...
...time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah Johnson...
...course, all was not happy in Mudville. Whenever I placed a roll in its holder--after debating for hours one end which way to hang it to prevent disease--I found that the toilet paper was too wide for its holder, or, more aptly named, its squeezer...
...should be happy with twice the ration of tissues. But because I can't figure out how to take the roll out of the holder, I am conviced that Harvard's toilet paper exploits are an attempt to instill anal retentiveness in its students...