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Valerie Coel, of Lexington, Ma., came to MIT with excellent credentials: a B.S. from Vassar, an I.Q. of 163, as well as a membership in Mensa, the international "genius society...
...Massachusetts native and six other members of Mensa posed in the buff for the pages of the November Playboy. Last Friday two, Coel and JoAnn Harjes, came to a Boston Store 24 to sign autographs and plug the magazine...
Petersen, an engineer by training and a member of Mensa, the high-IQ society, has spent much of his 35-year Ford career planning new autos. A dedicated car buff, he startled fellow executives two years ago by taking a performance-driving course from Grand Prix Driver Bob Bondurant. More than 100 of his colleagues have since followed that lead to improve their knowledge of car handling...
...problem '80s.) There is also a passel of sharp performances. The presence of such actors as Christopher Lloyd (Zenned-out on an inner voice that must sound like Daffy Duck's), Ellen Barkin (with her bruised features and street-angel smile) and Jeff Goldblum (heartthrob of the Mensa sorority) clues Buckaroo Banzai as very chic scifi. Lithgow, the movies' Mr. Versatile (transsexual jock in The World According to Garp, bumbling lover in Terms of Endearment, incendiary preacher in Footloose), here does a manic turn as Dr. Lizardo; it is as if old mad Ezra Pound were played...
...Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally ran a blind trust fund from the Oval Office and that his avarice and cunning were rooted in childhood. If, as Emerson wrote, "geniuses have the shortest biographies," Caro has envisioned an L.B.J. who was hardly a candidate for Mensa. With a probable 1,600 pages left to go, Caro has already concluded that Johnson lacked "any consistent ideology or principle, in fact, any moral foundation whatsoever." The book has come under considerable attack from critics, not all of them admirers of L.B.J. The opponents argue that the biographer...