Word: revamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years since the friendly motelkeeper played by Anthony Perkins, 50, was led away to a California mental institution after his classic bathroom murder of Janet Leigh, 55, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Middle-aged and pronounced cured, Norman has returned to town and wants to revamp his sagging hostelry. Directed by Richard Franklin, 34, who worked with Hitchcock as a student, Psycho II picks up the few surviving characters from the master's original. Vera Miles, 51, returns as Leigh's sister, "and Mom is definitely six feet under - in the beginning," says Perkins, ominously adhering...
...came away unbowed but a little bloody. I can't move anything in the Congress." Democrats find themselves in an ambiguous political position. Most believe that Reagan's budget makes no economic sense and will severely prolong or even deepen the recession. Lacking the clout to revamp it totally, they are reluctant to block key parts of it, since they might then have to share the political blame for any economic chaos that occurs...
Equally important, the Corporation should revamp its selection process, preferably in time to help fill Putnam's spot. Faculty, alumni, and students all deserve to be able to vote to help appoint the Corporation members whose decisions often have such impact on them. At the same time, the Corporation should expand its size to make it more akin to the boards of other Ivy schools--a move that would make diversity more immediately attainable and that would make the board less of a coterie. Regular elections for seats with limited terms would also increase the body's responsiveness...
SOMETIME NEXT MONTH the Senate will try for the fourth time in seven years to revamp the federal laws on crime, and as they have in the past, civil liberties activists will again oppose the Criminal Justice Reform Act, now called S. 1630. Last week at Harvard, 200 students from a variety of campus political groups demonstrated against the bill, which if enacted in its current form would preserve some of the worst features of the existing criminal code while adding new provisions designed to restrict individual liberties. Fourteen of the University's most respected professors, including Stephen J. Gould...
...Jacqueline O'Neill, assistant to the vice-president for government and community affairs, said that at the most recent meeting with neighborhood representatives, Harvard outlined a "minimum guarantee" proposal which would revamp University Place plans to leave the house at 134 Mt. Auburn St. undisturbed at its current location and to move the building at 3 Mt. Auburn Place to one of five potential locations in the neighborhood...