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...year. A majority in the Senate, possibly to be echoed in the House, proceeds along the lines of an entertaining but abject logic: STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN. The sponsors of the amendment to mandate balanced federal budgets have flocked to the Constitution, as to the Wizard of Oz, to ask for a superego, to plead for the discipline that they have been unable to enforce upon themselves. It is an evasive and unworthy and essentially political exercise. The oldest living constitution in the world should not be dragged onstage to perform in such charades. It is undignified...
...first buy was on Thursday morning, March 11, at an apartment in New Town, a chic singles neighborhood. He chatted with his host, a cop from his precinct, and then got down to business, agreeing to buy ⅛ oz. of coke for $300. The conversation was recorded by a pair of miniature microphones fastened to Watson's chest. Eavesdropping in a van out side were Sandberg and Chandler. In a nearby car was IAD Officer Victor Howard, 37, who, like Watson, Chandler and all but one of the indicted dealers, is black...
...omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save her family from imminent death; she falls down a hole and into a world of effulgent psychedelia. The Bluth artists boast that more than 600 colors were used in the 1.5 million drawings that compose this...
...elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard of Oz." In Atlanta, two schoolgirls are still sobbing as they leave the theater, then segue into a spirited argument over who cried more. Back at the Cinerama Dome, the closing credits for E. T. roll by to one more standing ovation. The moviegoers may also have been applauding themselves, for they are helping...
Flynn must confront Dellinger's evil henchman. Master Control Program (MCP), a Wizard of Oz-like being who has taken over the whole system, Several programs have tried to overthrow MCP, but they have all been captured and are being kept hostage...