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...offerings on supermarket shelves, dependable mediocrity and the illusion of choice might well be the twin goals of American mass production. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the beer section, where most national brands stack up with dull similarity. Typically, they are bland, with thin sour-sweet aftertastes. One yearns for the winy, copper-etched malt aroma and the complex flavors of the best beers of Germany, Denmark and Holland...
...share of the M.I.T. pension fund, was reduced in last week's debacle. But some good may yet come of the Crash of '87, he says, if it lessens the flow of bright graduate students to investment banks. "It may make engineers out of some yuppies," he smiles. "Sweet are the uses of adversity...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Elizabeth M. Waite, Carrie Ross Welch...
...instance, Mortimer's sweet old aunties, Abby and Martha, have been poisoning lonely old men as an act of charity. Mortimer's brother Teddy thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And as if those three weren't enough, Mortimer's estranged brother Jonathan, an international criminal and Boris Karloff lookalike who still bears a childhood grudge against Mortimer, comes home just in time to make more mischief. Toss in Jonathan's sniveling sidekick Dr. Einstein, a mad (of course) and incompetent plastic surgeon, and some (fortunately) clueless cops, and the chaos is complete...
...whole library kinda `glows' with good intentions. The acting has its ups and downs. Lee Thomsen plays the lead role of Elwood with a warm, welcoming smile frozen on his face from beginning to end, and while the smile effectively establishes beyond a doubt that Elwood is sweet and mild-mannered, his character lacks depth and soon grows cartoonish. If Elwood is to hold our attention, he also needs charisma...