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...blue jeans company also asked respondants to list what items and fashions they considered most essential for life at college. Alarm clocks topped off the list, followed closely by a stereo and--you guessed it--blue jeans. Other essentials for life at college included a back pack, a typewriter, and extra underwear...
...that all the victims were young men and all died by hanging. They ranged in age from 14 to 25. Friends and relatives saw no warning signs among most of the victims, and no explanation could be found in the two notes left behind: one youth simply willed his stereo to his brother...
...that some of the jokes aren't funny. The teacher who rules as a pseudo-intellectual guru over his class is hilarious. So is Lane's battle against the unrequited love songs that invade his car stereo. These gags play on the real perceptions of teenage life in a surreal way, like the better moments of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. But most of the gags are borrowed from the more common genre of teenage film. They are simple improbable cartoon slapstick like when Lane's brother builds a space shuttle, or when Lane's food walks away from...
...opener of George Burns Comedy Week also gives cause for optimism, if not wild enthusiasm. Catherine O'Hara, a talented alumna of the SCTV comedy troupe, plays a mental patient who slips instantly into whatever role is suggested to her. Mistaken for a clerk in a stereo store, she becomes an expert on audio equipment; when police confuse her with a member of the bomb squad, she proceeds to defuse an explosive device planted in a store basement. It is the sort of loony conceit that could be sunk by heavy-handed treatment. With the delightful O'Hara and just...
...underwater craft, and the first stairs. The air is kept at a constant 72 degrees and circulates rapidly enough to make smoking permissible. Instead of being assigned to "hot racks," or beds that rotate among off-duty personnel, each crew member has his own bunk, equipped with stereo headphones. Food is copious, though overindulgence is rarely a problem. As one crew member explained, "We have to remember that hatches out of this place are only 24 inches in diameter...