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Although Seidman and her fellow candidates were not the first graduates in Harvard history to run for the board by petition, their campaign met with stiff opposition from University officials, including President Derek...
While the currency battles raged, Chrysler Corp. last week announced it would become the first U.S. automaker in decades to export to Western Europe. The reason: Chrysler feels that at the current exchange rates, some of its autos and vans will have wide appeal despite stiff European and Japanese competition. Unlike GM and Ford, Chrysler does not have European automaking subsidiaries, whose sales could be threatened by the export push. Says Robert Lutz, a Chrysler executive vice president: "At 240 yen to the dollar we were doomed. But at 150 yen we have a shot. I see real potential...
...cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood the genre") and the summer's Maximum Overdrive ("a stiff"), which King directed. But privately he derives consolation from a James M. Cain anecdote. An interviewer commiserated with the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice because Hollywood had ruined all his books. "Cain looked over at his shelf and said, 'No, they are all still right...
...Banks' transformation one of the world's oldest extant theatrical forms into an accessible Western production--is a daunting one. And his use and integration of other media--photography, film and music--is both effective and inventive. The problems lie rather in a confusing story line and in the stiff, stylized acting that slowly deadens the strange and haunting power of Yukio Mishima's 1955 adaptation...
...will surely not satisfy the demands of local officials in drug-plagued cities, like New York Mayor Edward Koch, who has called on the Army, Navy and Air Force to join the war. While calling for more federal help, state and local governments are launching their own crusades. Stiff jail sentences for pushers are in vogue; Alabama's new "drug-barons law," for instance, mandates a life sentence without parole for high-volume traffickers. Where the states will house drug dealers and pushers while they serve out their long sentences is another question. Most prisons are jammed, and urban court...