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...Harvard--leading the prospect carefully through the maze of tempting scholarship offers from Big Ten schools, and then seeing if he or she will be accepted by an admissions committee that doesn't roll over and play dead for every all-state linebacker that comes along--often creates problems. Pure athletic scholarships and submissive admissions committees, the two weapons that have built many an NCAA champion, are not in the Ivy League arsenal. But Harvard has disarmed itself even further by stripping its coaches of the ability to bring their sales pitches into the living rooms of their prospective charges...
...extreme diets-can seriously affect its wellbeing. Last week the Federal Government singled out a special danger. Citing evidence that "fetal alcohol syndrome" may be more widespread than had been supposed, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism warned pregnant women that consuming more than three ounces of pure alcohol-or perhaps as little as one ounce (two drinks)-a day could increase the risk of their giving birth to a deformed or retarded child. Added University of Washington's Dr. Sterling Clarren: "You wouldn't give a newborn baby a glass of Scotch-and you shouldn...
...level of carbon monoxide in the air." Growth, he repeats, is the best solution to poverty. Beckerman jokes that he would like to retire from the growth debate, but cannot just now because "the zero-growth merchants have been creeping back." He believes that their case is still pure rubbish. "What is so sacred about zero?" writes Beckerman in the British weekly New Statesman, attacking his liberal critics. "Why not some negative growth rate like minus the square root of seven...
These characters and their struggle to emerge intact from their '60s idealism, are the focus of the film, for the plot which frames that struggle is pure cliche. The big, bad conglomerate is just too predictably bull-headed, so intent on lancing any threats to its authority that journalistic quality ceases to matter. On the other hand, the idyllic days of hard-nosed investigative reporting, exposes and journalism prizes emerge in vague, rosy-colored hues through the sheen of memory. Sitting in bed after a bout of adultery with Harry, Laura rummages through a sheaf of old photographs and reminisces...
...name to Rudy Valentine. When his wife (played by Carol Kane) lets the bathtub overflow in the couple's posh hotel suite, Wilder passes it off as an added luxury of the place and swims laps, to the astonishment of his aunt and uncle. The slapstick is pure Wilder. He not only stars in the film but is also the writer, director and producer-a quadruple task he says "makes me want to go home and cry sometimes." Despite the obvious comic overtones, Wilder, 42, insists that his film is romantic at the core. Says he: "Everything I write...