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Over the fall, Cambridge replaced its paper-ballot voting system with a new punch-card that can be read by computer. "We didn't have to find a small army of people to assist the operation, and those who worked in the day could go home at a reasonable hour," explained Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir. "The returns were also available at a far earlier hour than in the past...
...true brawn, for it does not account for the swarm of vouthern Democrats--most of whom are far more conservative than Republican moderates--which has undermined partisan solidarity within the House. Given the ideological similarity between these deviant Democrats and the GOP. Republican strategists would be as pleased as punch to nab just 25 to 30 seats on the other side of the aisle. Such a transfer of power, all agree, would greatly facilitate the initiation of Reagan's agenda, whatever that agenda turns...
...with the six-inch platforms and the skirts for men; at the silvery ensembles that look like space suits for space cases and the heavy sweaters with turtlenecks and bare backs. You might wonder whether the clothes are a deliberate joke, or if, when wearing them, one becomes a punch line. But a word of caution. Don't laugh so hard that you miss either the talent behind these clothes or the spirit with which they are made, the ebullience, the cunning shunning of convention that exalts fashion even as it seems to mangle it. And consider a revision...
...arrival of this lubricious pair just now is a coincidence, not the harbinger of a trend. In the main, Hollywood pictures since the mid-'70s have been sexually arid. Even the horny teen romps use the erotic impulse only as the setup for an anatomical punch line. Among the box-office hits of 1984, only the Clint Eastwood melodrama Tightrope had much to say about the dark night of the libido, and much of that was muffled under the bang-bang of a climactic chase. For that matter, De Palma and Russell are eccentric outsiders, and so are their...
Attendance is up, and one reason is the use of supertitles, translations projected above the stage. Although Sills did not invent them (they were first used in Toronto), she has popularized the technique. Supertitles have rightly been criticized for occasional inaccuracy, for anticipating the punch lines of jokes and for injecting an element of television into the opera house, but Sills strongly defends them. "Do I want to tell someone who has worked on Wall Street until 5:30 to study the libretto or take a course in German?" she asks. "Do I want people sitting in my audience with...