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...Foundation's grant will create a permanent endowment to preserve on microfilm materials that are too disintegrated for public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Receives Grant to Preserve Judaica Collection | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...espionage--naturally through the old device of being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The good-guy secret agents (led by the poker-faced Marcel Bozzuffi) promise to protect Renato and Albin from the bad-guy agents so long as they help them obtain some mysterious microfilm. Molinaro treats us to more than 90 minutes of car chases, dart guns, and hair-breadth close calls, using nearly every cliche of every spy-adventure film ever made--not to create clever satiric effect, but to provide hoakey chills and thrills. As the corpses pile up, La Cage...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Happy Loving Couples | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...microfiche system consists of a reader resembling a portable television set and several hundred sheets of microfilm the size of index cards...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: University Library Displaying Microfiche Cataloging System | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

...pairing is as before. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) is still the wise, patient husband; Albin (Michel Serrault), the transvestite wife, remains prone to hysterics and to giddy romanticism. The two are involved in a rather strained spy plot after Albin comes into possession of a microfilm wanted by both the Súreté and what one must assume are Communist spies. It is only when Albin and Renato are forced to flee France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Take | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...after release to get steady jobs. All twelve of the ex-cons who worked for the computer company at Stillwater have parlayed their skills into similar jobs on the outside. In hopes of achieving comparable results, Massachusetts has closed down its flag-sewing operation in favor of a microfilm shop. Some experts caution that this approach can backfire. Jack Schaller, president of the American Institute of Criminal Justice in Philadelphia, maintains that ex-cons often do not want to pursue activities that remind them of their days behind bars. If a prisoner worked in the print shop, says Schaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Doing Business Behind Bars | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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