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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally and more aptly titled Son of Greetings, the movie chronicles the further adventures of Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro), one of the stalwarts of the original film. Returned from Viet Nam, Jon gets right into the swing of things by buying a 16-mm. camera and becoming the protege of a pudgy master pornographer. He sets up his tripod in his tenement apartment and plays a Peeping Tom game of Rear Window with the tenants of the massive co-op across the way. He even winds up marrying one of them (Jennifer Salt). By this time his film career...
Making Out in Paradise. Company tells all of this and tells it with an undeviating honesty that some playgoers will find acrid. The five couples involved in Company are in their 30s and 40s, too young for resignation and too old to swing, except self-consciously. All the couples play show-and-tell before their favorite friend Robert (Dean Jones), a bachelor of 35. Some of the dilemmas they act out for Robert are common: a drink problem, smoking too much, trying to lose weight-except that New Yorkers have an uncanny flair for self-dramatizing such issues. Some...
...minorities an influence beyond their numbers and benefits liberal candidates who have their support. The reason is that big states, unlike many small states, usually have strongly vying, evenly divided parties, and a bloc vote by minorities can change an election. Illinois, with 26 electoral votes, is a crucial swing state; its large non-white minority (9.9% of the voting-age population) mostly votes Democratic...
...Soviet R&D effort is not all defense-oriented. The Russians have developed a swing-wing bomber and a fractional orbital bombing system (FOBS), using ICBMs that are fired on a low trajectory and would approach the U.S. from its blind side: the Southwest, where American radar coverage is still scant. At the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, the world's largest missile impact range, the Russians are also developing a longer-range sub-fired missile for its new Yankee class submarines: one of them is already on patrol off the U.S.'s Atlantic coast...
...loss to Brown, there had been an appreciable light late in the game. Harvard's Bobby Johnson tripped, and while he was lying on the ground, Brown's Ken Wilde jumped on him and began beating him. Another Crimson player, Cle Landolt, ran over and took a baseball swing at Wilde with his stick. The fight spread and lasted about a minute. "All I remember is lying there and getting hit and kicked." Johnson said...