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...move which students Cambridge one of only a hundred of U.S. municipalities to duty hundred policy, the City Council last nigh declared Cambridge 8 hours for Central American and Haitian refugees...
...council of Extension School students last nigh kicked off is petition campaign aimed at reopening the Lehman Gall lounge, which has been closed to E-School students in the evenings since September...
...first sign that the end is drawing nigh occurs when a perfectly normal and respectable young woman (Sigourney Weaver) opens her refrigerator door to stow the celery. Instead of confronting yesterday's quiche, she finds herself face to face with the hound of hell, all red-eyed and snappish, with a dreamscape hinting of unspeakable mysteries stretching out behind him. It is here that the film begins to transcend the generic limits of the annual summer giggle fit for the old Saturday Night Live crowd...
...distraction or worse by the messy betrayals of life. What Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep life at arm's length. He has "arranged his ideas in well-nigh final order: none of the weakness, none of the drift that made supposedly educated people contemptible...
...most colorful in our language. My wife, who is from Oklahoma, has given me many that I have used in my work as a motion-picture songwriter. She told me of one student who, when asked by the teacher if he was finished with his exam paper, answered, "Purt nigh but not plumb." This became the title of a song for Dinah Shore in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick...