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Martin Sheen as the much-loved Professor Beckwith does all the things Professor Segal wishes he could do at Yale. He guarantees a grade-conscious physics student an A simply for enrolling in his Shakespeare course, saying, "I'll feel safer knowing there's a physcist out there who's read Shakespeare. "He puts his job on the line to save the humanities. At home he is the perfect husband and father, playing with his daughters and good-naturedly mediating their disputes Bob and his wife Sheila (Blythe Danner) share their professional triumphs and problems and seem to believe...
...Parliament, compared with Hawke's two years. But more often, he devoted too much energy to disparaging Hawke's politics and too little to detailing his own. Having accused Hawke of "socialism by stealth," Fraser somewhat hysterically warned voters that under a Labor government "savings would be safer under your bed than in the bank." His alarmist charges succeeded mainly in bewildering the banking community and alienating voters. At one point, Hawke retorted archly, "You can't put your savings under the bed because that's where all the Commies...
...budget for new advertising. The gutted Energy Department was not was not heard from at all this winter in matters of conservation, as it was during the Carter years. Gone, too, is the voice of the almost extinct Consumer Product Safety Commission, which once advertised appeals for safer lawn mowers, chain saws and children's clothing...
After cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules killed seven people in the Chicago area last fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration passed tough new regulations requiring drug manufacturers to package their products in tamper-resistant combiners. Now those safer boxes and bottles are turning up on store shelves across the country, and in some cases, companies have gone to extraordinary lengths in their zeal to protect...
...half of last year out of New York City reporting stories. Said Bradley to TIME: "It was a bunch of lies." The purported criticisms from colleagues, all made in unattributed quotes, were contradicted in separate letters to TV Guide by: Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; David Burke, a former 60 Minutes producer now working for rival NBC; and 16 staffers at 60 Minutes, who said that Ribowsky did not interview any of them...