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Republican Representative Henry I. Hyde, who is leading the charge of the indecency brigade, ought to realize that his motivation is essentially the same as the Church of Scientology. The only ostensible difference is that the church is trying to protect its own interests, while Mr. Hyde has a much more lofty goal: to protect the nation's children. What he doesn't seem to realize is that his conception of what children should or shouldn't read is as arbitrary as what the Church of Scientology thinks the public should or shouldn't read. This all assumes, of course...
...ought to work as well now as it did in the '50s; Cinderella stories don't date any more than Jane Austen stories do. And the new acting team isn't half bad. Ford's muttering misanthropy may actually be funnier than Bogart's harder, more sardonic take on Linus. Ormond is no Audrey Hepburn, but Hepburn was sui generis, and Ormond does have a shy charm all her own. And there is a wastrely weakness about Kinnear's good looks that suits David more neatly than Holden's square-cut handsomeness...
...felt as a board that it was our responsibility to make this public, because no one else was saying these things," Malone said. "These are important points and really ought to be heard...
...every other new sitcom on TV, Dr. Katz does not rely on fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned in the newspaper, laments that he ought to change his name to something that "skews a little younger," like Zeus) and with his amusingly unhinged patients (one fellow believes his feet aren't finished; another thinks he's addicted to Robitussin...
...probe. "It's been a long, hard fight, both technically and politically," says James Van Allen, the University of Iowa physicist best known for his 1958 discovery of the radiation belts that girdle Earth. Van Allen, who likens the story of the Galileo mission to The Perils of Pauline, ought to know. He headed the scientific study group that first recommended the Galileo mission to NASA in 1976 and has since seen the mission canceled and resuscitated twice...