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...golden rule of the situation comedy--simplicity for its own sake--also rules Sunday Lovers. Its creators follow a formula that you could find not only on television, but also in many of the Combat Zone's long-running hits: Four men, four countries, four separate half-hour accounts of their attempts to get laid...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...quick, imaginative, sometimes impossible situations; Sunday Lovers provides tedious, over-used plots. Where "Love American Style" used unusual idiosyncratic characters, Sunday Lovers employs expectable, almost banal personalities. Where "Love American Style" let us laugh at ourselves through its perceptive vision of the contemporary preoccupation with sex for its own sake, Sunday Lovers falls flat...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...that Bok is capable of showing emotion. After Harvard won in overtime on a last-second jump shot, Bok raced down to the floor and embraced Crimson captain Tom Mannix. Maybe it is time for President Bok to embrace, publicly, the minority community at Harvard not just for the sake of better race relations but also for the sake of morality and humanity...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: For a Firm Foundation | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...fact that Michigan Congressman David Stockman, 34, Reagan's choice as director of the Office of Management and Budget, had been an antiwar activist in the 1960s, the President-elect replied: "I remember some of my own views when I was quite young. For heaven's sake, I was even a Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out in Washington | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...cowardly. But that charge loses its sting in light of the political selfishness that brought registration back. Those who resist a policy at high personal cost because they find it immoral and unwise are courageous and patriotic next to those who legislate the fate of others for the sake of their own personal gain. And those who resist will not be alone--estimates from last summer indicate that between 5 and 25 per cent of American males scheduled to register refused, and many others went along only for fear of the penalties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resist Registration | 1/8/1981 | See Source »

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