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...neophyte actor took a couple of Richard Pryor hand-me-down roles and parlayed them into movie stardom. In 48 HRS., released last Christmas, Murphy played a sassy convict sprung from stir for two days to help Tough Cop Nick Nolte catch a couple of killers. The film's director, Walter Hill, says of Eddie: "This kid is so enormously talented he can get away with anything." This time Eddie ran away with the movie: 48 HRS., for which he was paid $200,000, has tallied an imposing $78 million at the box office...
Last week the Union resoundingly reversed that pacifist stand. After 3½ hrs. of impassioned speeches from undergraduate and guest speakers, the motion was defeated 416 to 187. YES! cried a Daily Mail headline, THIS TIME THEY WILL FIGHT. It was, in fact, the third Oxford vote to do battle. In 1965, and again in 1981, similar debates were held, and the no votes won, though by narrow margins...
Teammates shouted encouragement and placed a few bets among themselves as to who would win most quickly Richard Jackson. Brad Desaulmers and David Segal were the first off the courts Desaulmers led 14.0m hrs second game when he missed a forehand shot to allow his opponent a point...
...extras. It was shot in 267 locations, in six countries and on two continents, and it took 13 months to film and twelve more to edit. There were about 50,000 costumes, and Mitchum alone had 112 changes. When the cameras stopped, Curtis had 1 million ft., or 185 hrs. of film, which he cut down to 81,000 ft. That will translate, minus commercials, into about 15 hr. of air time...
...employed as pristine users, and psychologists tested new features for what the industry calls "user friendliness." The results now appear to be very friendly. Apple says its studies show that a novice can learn to operate Lisa in 20 to 40 min., as opposed to the 20 to 40 hrs. of instruction usually needed to master a first-generation computer...