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...MATEP saga has been a classic case of inconsiderate University behavior. Harvard has consistently refused to consult the concerned Brookline and Mission Hill residents who must live among its possibly toxic fumes. More brazenly, it has refused to test its plant for numerous health hazards, cockily denying serious health code violations that were later uncovered. Unless MATEP's management style changes drastically, Harvard should give up on this costly embarrassment...
...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...
...obvious and unoriginal as that, An Officer and a Gentleman still works. The tension and yearnings pent up inside of aspiring Navy pilot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) are vivid and believable. You may think you're too sophisticated for an underdog-gets-crewcut-and-makes-good saga, but wait until Mayo is face down in the mud, "doin' 50" for that bastard Sergeant Foley. You'll suddenly find you own tightly clenched fist pounding the arm rest with every rep. "Yes SIR! I'd LIKE to do some more push...
...Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist. -By Michael Demarest
...control of the galaxy. Its hero, the vapid Luke Sykwalker, relied on "The Force"--some ESTian kind of energy source--instead of on his own abilities. It is no wonder that the more self-assured rogue, Han Solo (Harrison Ford), emerged as the true hero of the Star Wars saga. But even he was too good to be true...