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You expect nothing new in a Schwarzenegger movie, and he usually delivers. Take Red Heat's final runaway-bus chase . . . well, action-movie finales are always boring; that's the time to get the popcorn. But there are pleasing character lines on the film's familiar muscular framework. The script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arnold Wry RED HEAT | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

At least the pastel picnic tables that, as the third project, still dot the Quad do serve some useful purpose, but they too are little more than burlesque--thanks to Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman's infamous observation about picnic tables: "Either you've sat on them or...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: The Changing of the Avant-Garde | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

Word of the free bagels had reached Harvard students by yesterday afternoon, pleasing those who did not care for Harvard Food Services' offerings. Jonathan D. Kastin '90. who said he visited the bakery in place of lunch at Dunster House, said he learned of the event from friends.

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, | Title: Bruegger's Anniversary Brings Free Bagels | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

Nick Raposo is also hilarious as the mad businessman constantly leaving phone numbers with his answering service. Lucy Soutter's performance as Linda wavers on the wooden once in a while, but she has about her a pleasing nuttiness reminiscent of some of Woody's best leading ladies.

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Trenchcoat Warfare | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

The 1982 divorce trial of Herbert and Roxanne Pulitzer served up a succession of toothsome headlines about naughty doings among the Palm Beach rich : group sex, lesbian encounters and suggestions of unspeakable things performed with a bedside trumpet. All this was allegedly borne upon a flood tide of cocaine, Dom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Feb. 29, 1988 | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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