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...together with 4000 other Harvard students to place his life on the line in the face of Cambridge police. They blocked traffic on Memorial Drive and hurled firecrackers and eggs. The police retaliated with tear gas and made six arrests. Luckily, someone was on hand to supply the vicious mob with ice cream cones. All in the name of Latin diplomas...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: When Camelot Came to Harvard | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...their crimes. Assigned to protect her, Cobra reluctantly (indeed, spiritlessly) falls in love with her. But this is presented as a distraction from his main line of business, which is to polish his arsenal in preparation for the climax in which he wipes out the whole mob of "sickos" in a single confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man of Few Grunts and No Beeps Cobra | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...West Coast, a perennial favorite for vacationers, should attract more than the usual mob this season. Many families who are planning their vacations around Expo 86, the world's fair in Vancouver, B.C., will head down to the Pacific Northwest and California coasts. As a result, Seattle expects record crowds this summer. The city's Gray Line Tours reports that bookings on some of its trips are already up sixfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Road, Seeing the Sights | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is This the Family Gun, Dad? At Close Range | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...underscore the sarcasm; their steps are punctuated by the swish and rattle of chains. The costumes display Fosse trademarks: white gloves, hats, spangled tuxedos. So do the dances, with their hip and shoulder rolls, backward exits and slithering one-hand gestures down the torso. The first-act climax, a mob convulsion set to Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar, recaps the form-in- formlessness trick that Fosse calls "the amoeba." His sultry sexual trio for Me and My Shadow derives from his Tony-winning Steam Heat for Pajama Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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