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What's this, a new ad campaign for Top Gun, the box-office smash about the Navy's hottest pilots? Not quite, although the confidently grinning fly-boy is indeed top gun of a sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time...
Only two parts of Great Good Fortune are redeeming at all. The first is the introduction, where Vigeland has a surprisingly candid conversation with Nathan M. Pusey '28, the president of Harvard who called in the Staties to smash the heads of several of Vigeland's classmates when they took over University Hall in 1969. Looking back at those years, Pusey lets down his guard enough to say that his real disappointment was not with the radicals but with the faculty, who failed to stand up to them: "I've never said this to anyone but my wife," Pusey admits...
...fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson's girlfriend, and Short Circuit, in which she befriends a robot. Blue City received bad reviews and is sinking out of sight. Short Circuit drew mixed notices but is a box-office smash. Neither required her to stretch much beyond the pretty post-high schooler she's already played several times. Is anyone listening out there in Hollywood...
...that time the company was hotter than hot, thanks to the board game it manufactures, Trivial Pursuit. But last week, when the company finally agreed to be sold, it went for a much smaller price: $75 million. The firm's acquirer: Coleco, the company that manufactures another smash hit, Cabbage Patch dolls...
Meanwhile, people sleep on the streets while our tax dollars are at work waging war in Central America. We know we really ought to find the time and the courage to do something about it. (Things to do today: call insurance broker, add to IRA, smash the state...