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...Orson Welles (1001 Mass. Ave.) is another foreign film-leaning theater but has a little bit more fun doing it. It was the first theater in the country to show The Harder They Come. Often their films are political footballs others won't touch, but they also show the most rock and roll movies in the area. They are also especially strong in exposing Brazilian and other Latin cinema as well as a smorgasbord of European movies...
Last but not least is the town-gown crossroads Charlie's Kitchen on Eliot St., where yuppies, preppies, and townies can mingle over Cheeseburger Specials and a cheap glass of beer. It's almost like a touch of reality right here in Cambridge
Arena rock mavens will find the going tough, since most bands wishing to make a profit refuse the prohibitive cut demanded by the Boston Garden. Bands, if they touch base here at all, will do it either at the Worcester Centrum or the Providence Civic Center, or both. You can reach both by bus, or drive for an hour through scenic high wayland. During the summer, bands like the Talking Heads and Elvis Costello braved the stifling heat to go where Bostonians are in July and August--namely Cape Cod. But the gruesome Colineum in north Yarmouth...
Directions for hooking up and operating video cassette recorders can be particularly maddening. A frequent mystery is how to connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...
There are now approximately 50,000 nuclear weapons. They have brought the world to a state of critical mass: the detonation of one bomb or warhead could touch off a chain reaction leading to the extinction of the human race. For a fact of life-the existence of those weapons-to be so bound up with the possibility of the death of the planet is an affront to reason and conscience alike...