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...movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...kids are needy, but the emphasis on children is surprising because the needs of adults--prisoners, homeless, single mothers, illiterates, drug addicts--by far outweigh that of youngsters. Yet of the over 70 programs at PBHA, a vast majority serve kids. Of its 16 summer programs, only two--the shelter and a teaching program--help adults...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Two Truths and a Lie | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Believe it or not, this situation had its comic moments. Libby's house was a block from mine in a Bel Air canyon. When the flood rains came, the mudslides simultaneously filled my house and his well-stocked bomb-shelter (food and booze) from floor to ceiling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radiation Experiment Coverage Was Sensationalist | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...cultural center needed a building in the middle of campus, and the Sanctuary, a homeless shelter at 74 Mt. Auburn St., was happy to oblige. The center could have the building, if the University was willing to approve...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Tales From 74 Mt. Auburn | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard administration has worked at length with the Progressive Student Labor Movement to produce a draft code that, while still problematic in some respects, would be far better than the negligible protections these workers now enjoy. The draft requires that wages cover "local family costs, such as food, shelter, clothing, health care, transportation and energy." If effectively enforced, this "living wage" provision would represent a vital step by Harvard towards the humane treatment of factory workers. Unfortunately, it is precisely this essential provision which could be jettisoned today...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

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