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...bodies in question are a group of senior citizens who turn homicidal when a real estate mogul, with the city's acquiescence, wants to run them out of their home to put up a complex of high-rises. It ain't much, their little apartment, but it's all they got. The developers find the oldsters a new place to live - "way across town," as one of them complains, "and twice the rent" - expecting them to shuffle along. These oldsters fight back. They are lame, halt, blind and loony, but scrappy enough for all that...
...falls from a great height, meeting mother earth with a steel beam on his chest; an elevator fire breaks out, and three other workers are fried to death. The job is shut down, but only temporarily, and the old folks at home are laying plans to go after the mogul himself...
Ricks and Embarassment. Christopher Ricks, the tall, affable English lit-crit mogul (who has finally managed to have himself translated from Bristol to Cambridge University) will speak in the Winthrop House JCR the day after school begins, April 8 at 8 p.m. The title of Ricks's lecture--seriously--is "Five Songs by Bob Dylan." Rumor has it Northrop Frye, in response, is considering adding a coda to his Norton Lectures on "The Secular Scripture" to be called "Myths of Ascent and Descent in 'Lay, Lady, Lay'." Such rumors, though, like so many scriptures themselves, may well be apocryphal...
...muzzle of a 16-in. gun peeping from the slit. Such, on first glimpse, is the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, built to house the enormous collection of 4,000 paintings and 2,000 sculptures that Joseph Hirshhorn, 75, the feisty, thrusting and by no means universally loved uranium mogul, presented to the nation...
...knew he had it knocked after he saw a rough cut of Chinatown. "Mogul," he said to Evans, who produced the movie, "we got that hot one. Get those checks ready-we're on our way." He also made it a point to phone up Actor Bruce Dern, a pal since they both scuffled through a bunch of low budget bike pictures, for a little needling: "Hey, Dernsie, I think you better retire, babe. I got it all covered -know what I mean?" Nicholson has called Dern "my only real competition -you and the guy on the hill" (referring...