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...within plots within plots, neither Charly nor the audience has the foggiest notion of what's going on much of the time. While director George Roy Hill is to be praised for his attempt to recreate the suspense of the novel, at times he would have done well to opt for a little less mystery and a little more clarity...

Author: By Mollv Chff, | Title: Terrorists in Love | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...instead of a chess match the makers of the film opt for a dressed up car chase and fail to realize the excitement that the raw material promises...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Dull Puzzle | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Under Dole's plan, front-seat automatic belts or air bags must be installed in 10% of 1987-model American cars, and in all new U.S. cars by 1990, Most experts expect the auto companies to opt for the $40 automatic seat belt over the more costly air bag ($320 by Dole's reckoning; $800 according to Detroit). She also announced that the Government would launch a $40 million annual campaign, half of it funded by the auto industry, to promote mandatory seat-belt legislation. If states containing two-thirds of the population pass such laws before April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Lane | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...early 1980s saw demonstrations on a broader range of issues. Gay and lesbian students marched to protest discrimination and Harvard's failure to opt a non-discrimination policy for gays...

Author: By Holly A. Adelson, | Title: Making themselves heard--again and again | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...disciplinary action, this provision seems to be enforced rarely if at all. Gumchewing, Walkman-clad culprits crowd the libraries, marking the books in neon pink, sky blue, or margarine yellow. Of course, the highlighter pen is not the only device used to destroy Harvard's books. Some annotaters opt for the more efficient method of making brackets in the margins--which at least annoys future readers a little less. Others add their own insights. "This is stupid," or "Imperialistic bull"--as if to clue in the world as to the true nature of a particular passage...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Battered Books | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

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