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...exchange's 293-year history, the members of the 403 separate risk-taking Lloyd's syndicates have insured countless ships and just about everything else from satellites to the Loch Ness monster and Betty Grable's legs. They even underwrote for $1 million the bust of a San Francisco striptease dancer billed as "Treasure Chest West...
...actor enjoys being typecast. But how to avoid it when you're a shark? Pity poor Bruce, the mechanical monster who cut his teeth on his first starring role-and various fellow players-four years ago in Jaws. Since then it's been mostly downstream for the studio fish: Jaws II, a bummer; a swim-on in a TV series; contract work in a pool on Universal's back lot eating an ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb...
...going as high as 1,300. The MIRVing freeze would hold the Soviet ICBMS at the number of warheads already tested on each type of rocket. In the case of their biggest missile, the SS-18, that means ten MIR Vs. Without such a freeze, the SS-18 monster could carry as many as 25 independently targetable bombs...
...people around you change. The guy next door who is dull as hell turns out to be funny. The nice normal woman down the hall is really a competitive monster ("that's right, four 20-page papers due tomorrow, and I haven't done any work for my exams"). The tutor who does nothing but play loud music becomes a hermit, hiding away in his suite to work on a paper that was due "two years...
WHAT WOODY ALLEN brought to the movie, Renata Adler to the novel and Valerie Harper to the sit-com, playwright John Guare has now brought to the stage--that many-headed artistic monster, the Manhattan neurosis. "Bosoms and Neglect," Guare's newest play, is about therapy. It's about loneliness and "5 a.m. friends." It's about the fulminations of intelligent but broken people who are oppressed by the four walls of their Fifth Avenue apartments. Though a bit tired, these themes can usually withstand a warming over, and Guare's is articulate and wry. The trouble comes when...