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...local sheriff (Ned Beatty), who has been getting a substantial skim off the moonshine profits. McKluskey turns state's evidence in order to get himself out of prison and get the goods on the sheriff. There is grim melodrama and folk comedy here, but Screenwriter William Norton sloughs off the more serious themes of an informer working inside a situation for which he has the strongest sympathy and of a whole system of free enterprise that exists outside the law but is still a strong part of it. Reynolds shows dash and comic cunning, and Director Joseph Sargent, though...
...mysterious UFO, named Rama by its puzzled observers, is a metallic cylinder more than 30 miles long and twelve across and weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
...persons would be excluded from riverside housing by quotas for the poor? So these persons will continue to move away, to Belmont, to Newton, to Weston, and Cambridge will become more and more of a "homogeneous city" of poor, with a few small enclaves around Brattle Street and the Norton woods where Harvard professors live. Yet if housing on the river were priced at full market value, Cambridge would get increasing tax revenues, which would allow it to finance more projects to help the poor...
...FORSTER 240 pages. Norton...
Approximately 20 years ago Harvard faced this dilemma. Previously the University had paid scant attention to the creative arts. Harvard's first art history course was given by Charles Eliot Norton in 1874. A few sporadic courses in painting and sculpture had been offered in the Fine Arts department. But it was not until 1954 that the University felt it was important enough to appoint a committee to study the practice of the arts at Harvard...