Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of humor. Alligator is a robust mutant of Them! and other '50s horror movies that took a no-nonsense approach to the threat of atomic apocalypse. Civilians run from the deadly menace; policemen walk toward The Thing because that's their job. Alligator provides a terse manual on the care, feeding and ultimate annihilation of 2,000-lb., 36-ft.-long reptiles-and on the art of making a grind-house movie with care and wit. Good Cop David Madison (Robert Forster, in an authoritatively low-key performance) is forever being reminded of his thinning hair...
Today's Eastern League contest is the more meaningful home opener. The Lions (3-3 EIBL, 10-7 overall) are always tough for Harvard, and you may see Kurt Lundgren pitch the kind of ballgame Rollie Acosta did the last time Columbia came north, back in the manual scoreboard days. Lundgren, a sophomore from Nanuet, N.Y., leads the entire 59-team ECAC in strikeouts with 60, and despite a 2-4 record and three straight bad outings, he's a guy capable of getting hot and whiffing 16 like he did while shutting out Dartmouth last year...
...OPPOSITE SIDE of the human spectrum from Manon hulks her retarded uncle, Guy (Germain Houde), a hideous brute of a man. He lives with Manon and Michelle, provides unwilling manual labor (the family sells firewood for a living), and is slobbering drunk most of the time. Guy's room exemplifies, in miniature, the unobtrusive excellence of the film: decorated with Playboy pin-up posters, invariably the squalid cubicle provides graphic regurgitative evidence of excessive drinking the previous night and hosts a snoring half-dressed lout who obviously never has come within 75 feet of a naked woman. Houde plays...
...most of the time. But he did not feel isolated. Said he: "Never do I feel like a cog in a huge impersonal machine." Occasionally he went off to consult with the experts on the assembly line. Most of this afternoon was spent writing and revising an English-language manual for a new " TV-set model. Then at 4:45 p.m., he | and his colleagues stood and again sang the Matsushita song. That was not, however, the end of Saito's day. He returned to the cafeteria for a light supper of grilled fish and then walked upstairs...
...editor R. Emmett Tyrell and titled "The Continuing Crisis," which diagnoses the grave illnesses of America by pointing to symptoms. This month, Tyrell dislikes Bill Walton ("tiresome proponent of New Age claptrap," "Marxist-Leninist thumper for health food"), liberation theologists, and the Washington press corps (who need a "manual on the fundamentals of courtesy"). There are signs of recovery, though; President Reagan has restored "dignity to realms where there recently had been mawkishness and amateurism unsurpassed in American history," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig has refused Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin access to an underground garage operated by the State...