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...Danny Aiello), the father, is a low-paid waiter and loudmouthed gambler who dreams of hitting the numbers big so that he can run away with his popsy (Ellen March). The domineering mother Enid (Beatrice Arthur) has a tongue with the sting of a killer bee. The 17-year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Home Rue | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...just three hits, but walked eight batters and hit two more. What kept Harvard in the ballgame--which was tied, 4-4, until Donnie Allard poked a long home run in the sixth--were three Brad Bauer-to-Gaylord Lyman-to-Chuck Marshall double plays which took the sting out of the bases on balls...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Tops Brandeis, 6-4; Smerczsnski Stars In Relief | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

Perhaps the worst damage from the whole budget crisis is the division it has created within the university community. Long after the fiscal sting has disappeared, students, faculty, staff and administrators will remember the bitter struggle for scarce resources. The "open process" by which Mackey conducted the budget-cuts decision-making probably exacerbated the problem, as supporters of every program from the planetarium to highway-safety training pleaded for hours at open meetings. "I am sure we heard all the reasons why we can't make any cuts in any program." John B. Bruff, chairman of the board of trustees...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: To Serve the Masses? | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

With a 25-m.p.h. headwind and midwinter temperatures putting a sting in to the plushest of batting gloves and making a major leaguer out of URI's puff-balling Ron Barber, the Harvard baseball team dropped a 4-0 decision to the Rams at Bill Beck field here yesterday...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Barber's Curves Blank Crimson, 4-0 | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...last suspect to be brought to trial on bribery and corruption charges in the Government's Abscam (for "Arab scam") case. A 22-year veteran of the Senate, he is also the most important figure to face a jury as a result of the FBI sting operation. Like the six U.S. Congressmen already tried and convicted on Abscam charges, Williams faces a barrage of electronic evidence in the form of video and audio tapes of his encounters with undercover FBI agents. But in Williams' case, a figure mentioned but never before seen in Abscam tapes makes a dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wolff in Sheik's Clothing: Abscam 's biggest TV special debuts in a Brooklyn court | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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