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...plot is sheer silliness as well. It centers around Pee Wee's relentless search for his stolen bicycle. It must be understood that this is not just any bicycle, but the ultimate kid's bicycle (at least in Pee Wee's mind), complete with lion's head on the handlebars, spiral wheels, streamers trailing from the handgrips, and the world's loudest horn...
...back of a Mercedes, behind bodyguards and guarded by German shepherds." They did not guess, ventured Rolf, that the runaway Nazi might be living in penury in a ramshackle hut. Thinking of that sorry plight, and of the jottings about children and poodles that constituted the lion's share of the released documents, Rolf said he deplored the methods and madness of the doctor, but could not condemn him. "I don't support my father," he said, "but I don't want to betray him either...
...substitute for Toto, Dorothy's beloved dog, unaccountably left behind this trip. But though she can talk, she has less animation, and character, than the mutt. The same lack of enchantment afflicts the new friends Dorothy makes on the journey. Instead of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion of blessed memory, she encounters a pumpkin with stick limbs, a tin soldier and something called a Gump, which looks suspiciously like your basic moosehead. They are all mechanical marvels, not actors, which means they can do anything except win an audience's heart. Still, it would defy the gifts...
...October, combines the bold orange and gray stripes of Memorial Hall with the proportions of Andrews' design school. But the Sackler's most startling feature is its aggressive mixture of historic motifs with raw industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield: "The entrance looks like Superman's Fortress of Solitude." Inside, a steep, monumental staircase features antique friezes on one wall, while the opposite side...
...Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance, says Calero, is coming from "at least a dozen or more foreign countries...