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...news items occupy otherwise useless brain cells. For some inexplicable reason, save perhaps the innate grayness of the era, films from the '50s seem particularly susceptible to forgetability. In fact, there are only a few exceptions to this bizarre rule, among them Edward Murrow's better interviews and the lesser-known, but still timely film Come Back, Africa. Directed by Lionel Rogosin in 1959, Come Back, Africa is a documentary-drama about apartheid. Filmed secretly in South Africa, much of it in areas banned to whites, and then smuggled out of the country, it is a stunning indictment...
...list of 18 Soviet families who may receive permission to emigrate to the United States or Israel, released by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) this week, includes the names of Levich and his wife Tanya as well as lesser-known Soviet "refuseniks...
...annual cheese-squeezing championships, one of the world's lesser-known sporting events, will take place this weekend in fabulous Lynnfield. Take Route 1 north to the Dairy Queen, turn right, and keep going. The exciting Brie quarter-finals begin Sunday...
...WHICH BRINGS us to the question of why Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe was ever conceived, much less actually released in U.S. cinemas. This movie is nothing more than a filmed recycling of some of the more famous skits staged by the Monty Python group and the lesser-known British group, Beyond the Fringe. If the former lent its name to the film for the sake of giving the latter greater exposure in a more commercial market, that's mighty big of the Monty Python people. But judging from the sloppy direction and arrangement of the skits, this latest...
Countryman also objected to the bill's many lesser-known political and social provisions. He thought that an amendment tacked onto the bill by Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.), allowing judges to deny pre-trial release to persons accused of murder, treason, rape, sabotage, or trafficking in narcotics, is probably unconstitutional. Dershowitz agreed the provision was a "crass political compromise." Vorenberg refused comment on the Dole amendment...