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...McGee. 17, was crippled by an officer in a pizza parlor when he reached into his pocket for a cigarette lighter. The officer later said he had fired because he thought McGee was taking out a gun to hold up the parlor. City Attorney William A. Swisher refused to prosecute the policeman because, in his view, there had been "no criminal intent." Demonstrations followed the decision...
...spirit her brood out of Hitler's Austria, or Don Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned a dream world from the Formica-and-vinyl tatters of the American dream...
That church's action was not entirely isolated. While the finishing touches were being put on the Supreme Court's decision in Washington, two other Cambridge churches were also taking advantage of their powers under the absurd law. Ruggle's, a new pizza parlor in the Square, just last week lost its bid for a liquor license, after two churches sent in their objections to the Cambridge License Commission...
...staff member and I talked about the Pudding Show, then about freshman year, then about classes, grades, roommates, Houses, food, pizza. I think we even covered pop-tarts in there somewhere. He repeatedly reassured me that there were other chances to try out for many things, and shared some of his own experiences in his years at Harvard with me. An hour later I left, still wishing I had made the cut, but no longer attaching quite the importance to it. The room and its people had worked their magic, helped me out, and given me advice. But most importantly...
...look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well. "I don't think it's a fad," says Drexel Burnham's Greditor. "Is pizza a fad?" Says William Trainer, a restaurant analyst for Merrill Lynch: "I think Mexican restaurants have lots of room to grow." Regardless, the onrushing Mexican-food chains have already made tostadas, burritos and the like as familiar and as American as egg foo yung. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Sheila...