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Nathan I. Huggins, DuBois Professor of Afro-American Studies and History, has no air conditioning to relieve the hot weather as he moves into his new office at 77 Dunster St. But while his headquarters may be uncomfortable now, the heat of the summer will be mild compared with the heat Huggins will face in autumn as the new chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...feature-length promos for sound-track albums, The Great Santini had a hard time making itself heard. The film bivouacked in one town after another, opening to sympathetic reviews and closing to public indifference. Its distributor, Orion Pictures, sold the film to airlines and cable networks as a mild soporific for weary travelers and viewers. Doubtless, it was seen as nothing more than an up-scale TV movie, with its careful pacing, liberal humanism and "small" subject: the family. Now Santini has found an almost posthumous success in a Manhattan bijou. Critics helped lead the right audience to it: fathers...
...Israeli reaction to Prince Fahd's call for a holy war was mild. Proclaimed a foreign ministry spokesman: "We are not shocked and we are not worried." The Israelis, in fact, seemed far more preoccupied with the latest internal squabble of Begin's faltering government. This time the Prime Minister was at odds with his lawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a hero of the 1973 October War, who las made no secret of his desire to be Defense Minister. Begin has held that post since the resignation of Ezer Weizman last May, but he has only been able...
Trench warfare was ghastly enough to make any of its freezing, frightened participants yearn for almost any kind of escape. As for those who were restricted to England for the duration, the climate, which had once seemed a mild test of pluck and heartiness, began to seem intolerable. What Fussell calls the "I Hate It Here" syndrome became rampant, particularly among writers, malcontents at the best of tunes. When getting away finally became possible again, many left seeking not just adventure but permanent exile...
...disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fought a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way? Christopher Reeve, of course. Faster than a speeding bullet, Reeve finished making Superman II and leaped to Williamstown, Mass., for a summer-stock revival of the 1928 classic, The Front Page. He may have ducked into a phone booth to change to period costume, but he has not left journalism. As Hildy Johnson, not-so-mild-mannered reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, he fights a never-ending battle to prevent truth from getting...