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The film's rather homely Mimi (Evelyne Didi) isn't the fragile beauty of Puccini's opera, but she turns out to be just as consumptive. Her romance with Rodolfo is halfhearted; in a movie preoccupied with hunger, the couple's appetite for each other is depressingly dull. Musette (Christine...
Why have these economically marginal groups been forgotten? As many of the nation's "offical" poor live in rural areas as in cities. Yet, the poor in the cities are more visible to the powerbrokers who also inhabit urban areas. The heavy concentration in smaller areas means that the urban...
Many of the companies might be interested in moving faster, but they are restrained by a complex network of sanctions back home below the federal level. States, cities, pension funds, universities and sundry other public and semi-public bodies have economic prohibitions against dealing with South Africa that remain in...
Some gear actually does work a little better than the earlier models it is supposed to supersede. At Easton Aluminum's big test lab in California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result...
She was too self-effacing to write her memoirs, but it was quite a story. She was a child of the frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s, on...