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...reverse). Josh Baskin (David Moscow), a twelve-year-old who has just discovered girls, realizes one day that he is not big enough to get the one he wants, a sophisticate of 15 or so who, of course, likes older boys. What could be simpler than to plunk a quarter in a carnival wishing machine and ask to be, well, big? But Josh did not specify just how big, and when he wakes up the next morning, he is the same size and the same age as Tom Hanks...
Last weekend, Harvard's season went "ker-plunk," as if it were dropped off Anderson Bridge and into the Charles River. Still, the Harvard season had highlights. Here are a few film clips of the best and worst of Harvard hockey...
...fact is that movie buffs seem ready to plunk down their bucks almost no matter what is on the tape. With VCRs in 54% of U.S. homes, an estimated 65 million movie cassettes were sold in 1987 (up from 51 million in 1986), and 3.3 billion were rented (up from 2.2 billion the year before). Newly minted cassettes of Hollywood classics are flooding the stores, and TV ad campaigns now alert buyers and renters to the release of recent hits. Notes a bullish Louis Feola, senior vice president of MCA Home Video: "There is a generation of kids growing...
...members were overjoyed. They had, after all, created the winning collection in just three weeks. For the designer, it was a moment for savoring how good his people really are. Sentimental? Yes. But now comes the Lacroix touch. His next move was to take the outsize, gleaming award and plunk it in the middle of the window, on the sands with the crustaceans. Maybe he will get the sun in there somehow...
Late-night music afficianados will have a new place to plunk down cash when Tower Records opens its store at 360 Newbury St. on Saturday. Offering records, tapes and compact discs products, the store will be open from 9 a.m. to midnight on Monday through Saturday, and from noon to midnight on Sunday, every day of the year...