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...Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships are formed--a surer route to public embarrassment than to private ecstasy. The omens are clear: the founderings of all these nice people will lead to trouble. A child must be sacrificed; men must sob at their loss. The Ice Storm, says Ang Lee, director of this daring epic in miniature, is "a disaster movie. Except...
...manuscript's discovery will make prosecution a much surer bet. Initial tests have indicated it was typed on the typewriter next to it; and the FBI had previously determined by examining the manifesto sent to the papers, the Unabomber's missives to various newspapers and a gloating note to one victim that all three emerged from the same machine. In fact, lying next to the treatise in the cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing...
...application procedure is more comprehensive this term, and we thought that extending the dead-line would be the best way to maximize our service to the student community by allowing more groups to get their applications in," said Trea- surer Edward B. Smith...
Thousands of U.S. troops continued to stream into the Persian Gulf region, despite surer signs of retreat by Saddam Hussein's forces. This morning, Saudi Arabia and five smaller oil nations -- Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself -- began deploying much of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait, enough to match the number of U.S. forces now on Kuwaiti soil. Meanwhile, the U.S. operation's Central Command tells TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson that Iraq's forces are in close to full flight back north -- including what is believed to be the best of Saddam...
...something to 1945's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, in which an immigrant family offered similar characters, though not so large a family, facing the same basic problems: clinging to their respectability and trying to make certain the kids grow up smart, honest and able to claim a surer place for themselves in the world...