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...casual visitor is startled to see the first contestants. Five-year-old Shawn Serface and five-year-old Dan Casarez are in their corners having their faces smeared with Vaseline to reduce the chance of cuts. Their hands are wrapped in gauze and placed inside huge (16 oz.) boxing gloves. Shawn tries to spit out the rubber mouthpiece. "I don't want it," he tells his cornerman-father, who shoves it back in. As the two boxers get their instructions from the referee, Dan interrupts with his own bit of advice. "No kicking," he blurts out to his opponent...
...much wit and talent and energy crowd the screen in this lavishly filmed variant of the Oz story that it is depressing to realize that the production never had a chance. The trouble is not that memories are stirred of Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, a film so indelibly fixed in the mind that to remake it would be like remaking Gone With the Wind. The Wiz, which came to life first as a Broadway musical, is a cousin of the movie, not a remake. Its independence is firmly based in its cheerful suppositions that Dorothy...
...revealed in order to protect their child from repercussions within their nation's conservative Hindu society; the world's second baby conceived outside the human body, two months after the birth of the first such child, Louise Brown; a girl; in Calcutta. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz...
...Wizard of Oz. At Harvard Square, Saturday and Sunday at 1, 4:35 and 8:15. With Singing in the Rain...
...Despite the good news in the Middle East, the dollar continued to fall, reaching an alltime low of 1.51 Swiss francs. The dollar has now fallen about 37% against the Swiss franc in a single year. The price of gold rose to a record high of $216 per oz. Carter met with his top economic advisers last week to work out a plan to combat inflation, now the No. 1 domestic issue, and although he has repeatedly rejected all proposals for wage-price controls, there were indications that his advisers were definitely considering guidelines with some force in them. Both...