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...work on TIME? 23. Key at the upper-left corner 24. __ Hamoukar, site of a recently discovered 6,000-year-old city in Syria 27. Like the Sabin vaccine 29. One of L.B.J.'s beagles 32. Inflation-fighting agcy. of the '40s 33. Word on a striker's placard, perhaps 34. Euro forerunner 35. Money obtained as political patronage 36. Holder of Nixon's "smoking gun" 37. AC rating units 38. Org. in the movie Michael Collins 40. Site of controversial May 28 presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors...
...obscenity case over a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit nearly got an NC-17 rating, until the network cut the screen time for Mapplethorpe's haunting, sexually explicit photos. If only it had shown them longer--for 90 minutes, say--and ditched the rest of this mechanical, insultingly didactic placard. James Woods begins playing besieged Cincinnati museum director Dennis Barrie less as a saint than a fish-out-of-SoHo aesthete. But the nuance is soon lost in a film that wants to be an agitprop documentary, interrupting its storyline with interviews of mostly pro-Mapplethorpe notables. The film isn't obligated...
...Gatto's car, replacing it with a worn-out wreck with 156,000 miles on it and no working two-way radio. (He's since been given a newer model.) Meanwhile, the city started an investigation against Gatto's senior detective, Chris Clinch, for allegedly mishandling a police parking placard and placing household garbage in a DEP Dumpster. A judge later exonerated Officer Clinch in a decision suggesting that a city official may have fabricated testimony to discredit Gatto...
There are no neon signs or gaudy trimmings proclaiming the site of room 14 in the F entryway of Winthrop House. A simple blue placard tacked to the door identifies the dorm room haunted by, as one visitor called it, "The Ghost of Charisma Past." Welcome to the JFK Suite...
...What about the man behind the placard? During his studies in Cambridge, JFK nearly drowned in the ivy sea, fumbling through campus politics and athletics. A member of the Hasty Pudding and the Freshman Smoker Committee, he managed to pull gentleman's Cs. Ronald Ferry, then head of Winthrop House, characterized JFK as "reasonably inconspicuous," and an old friend recalls his amorous reputation: "Jack never even went steady until late in his senior year." Author and Crimson editor Cleveland Amory '39, described him as "a pleasant, interesting guy. But the legend that we considered him destined for the presidency...