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...past decade, autumn was harvest time for the serious moviegoer, the season for films with hearts of humanism and minds dreaming of Oscars. Often those dreams were fulfilled: four of the last seven winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire) were released in major cities between Labor Day and the end of November. In 1980 viewers could see Raging Bull, Private Benjamin and The Elephant Man. Last year there were The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ragtime and Absence of Malice...
...networks brought to election light a nest of presumptions that had been established by influential print pundits. Syndicated Columnists Jack Germond and Jules Witcover hammered away about the burden imposed on all Republican candidates by Reaganomics. Joseph Kraft predicted that "the Democrats could pick up 30 to 40 [House] seats...
...million of dollars, and he ultimately wants to have the council guarantee the future success of Harvard students. He has also called his seven opponents for the chairmanship "maggots" and "the base excrement of mediogrity." "Predictably he's been called a few names himself, including "fascist," "beffecn" and "the nest P.T. Barnum." When a fellow candidate threw out the latter epithet. Evans responded: "If I get the chairmanship, you shall be ruthlessly purged...
...playing a sever match on a cold and rainy Saturday morning on a postage stamp field in the hills of New Hamperire might rank as one of the meins taxing of all anxieties endeavors. And for the faint half of their 2-0 win nest Dartmouth, the members of the Harvard men's soccer team looked like they would place it at the top of that list...
...company's focus, shifting it away from its traditional lines of business and toward high technology. Agee sold off the firm's nonferrous metals, forest products and energy exploration divisions for a total of $800 million and began looking for a company to acquire with that enormous nest egg. Martin Marietta was considered a perfect takeover target. Says E.F. Hutton Analyst Frank Drob: "Martin Marietta is a very attractive purchase. The important point is that you are not marrying two sick companies, but two strong ones...