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Grubby Guerrillas. In a recent bust, federal agents in Boston seized $450,000 worth of marijuana bound for "the Cambridge market," a central distribution point for which is Harvard Square. Officially, the university frowns on drugs, occasionally will nail a student dealer and expel him. But Dean Fred Glimp views marijuana smoking calmly: "The ones who smoke pot now are the ones who ten years ago would go on benders on Saturday night." Asked what he would do if he heard a wild party going on at 3:30 in the morning and found a group of stoned students...
...female heavy is Joan Weston, a $20,000-a-year blonde Bomber who sends opponents flipping over the guard rails with one twitch of her mighty hips. As her bumpy, bruised knuckles attest, she can be equally menacing with an uppercut ("I can't keep a long nail," she says). She takes her lumps too, most often from a gang of Braves led by pert Marge Laszlo, a nine-year Derby veteran who has had plastic surgery to remove the scars from a twice-broken nose...
...know it at the time, so when the old woman began to claw away at the circle, literally to tear people's arms apart, the boy was more than a little amazed. In the process of fighting to keep her out, he injured his big toe; someone kicked the nail, which tore off, and the toe started of bleed. But the boy hung on, until Jessica finally made it in and, finding herself suddenly in the middle, burst out in that same expression of indescribable joy that the boy had seen in Elizabeth and Susie...
...viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down what it is about. I don't know what it means. I guess that must mean I'm nuts...
...year from now. But why put businessmen in those parts? For a very practical reason, says Director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Seven Samurai), who is handling the Japanese portion of the co-production with U.S. moviemakers: there were few if any professional actors available who looked and acted like the nail-hard World War II militarists of Japan. Then Kurosawa figured that running the Imperial Japanese war machine was not so different from running the country's large businesses. Only high decision-making executives, he says, could have the style, the class and the personality of yesterday's stern...