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ONE TRICKY ASPECT of the film is that Joe appears to the audience and his heavenly guardians as his former self, but as Farnsworth (whom we never actually see) to ever body else. This gimmick naturally provides several humorous encounters. The best of these is the scene in which Joe...

Author: By Ray Bertolino, | Title: Warren, The Megalomaniac | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

As the 7 a.m. departure approaches, 33 crew members on deck and below are beginning their duties. The surprisingly clean engine room, below and aft, is bigger than the devil's furnace in a fevered imagination. Ship's engineers are checking giant boilers and huge cooling systems that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: An Oil Tanker Sails | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

"The only publicity we're getting was Collegian publicity and that was a little tricky," the spokesman said. The women are now working on efforts to inform the student body about their demands, and they held a rally two days ago.

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Commission Will Investigate Feminists' Charges at U. Mass | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

Dartmouth's golfing virtuoso is junior Joe Henley, who larked to a winning round of 74, abetted by local knowledge of the tricky layout. Henley was runner-up in the Ivy tournament.

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Manhandles Golfers in Hanover | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

PERHAPS ONE of the lessons of the performance, then--both negatively and positively reinforced--was that the making of dances is a wretchedly tricky business. This was surely one of the themes of the evening's most outlandish and sophisticated piece, Connie Chin's "Chimera." Chin's own entrance, in...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: More Than a Theory | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

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