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Culture Clash. Touches of Little Italy and Chinatown. The Beat-era City Lights Bookshop, where Jack Kerouac gave drunken poetry readings, and the Purple Onion, the takeoff nightspot for Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery...
Ghostbusters is actually the trade name for a trio of rogue parapsychologists kicked out of academe for conduct unbecoming to scholarship and forced to set up shop as exorcists for hire. Lucky for them that they launch their venture just as the ectoplasmic underworld is about to go on a rampage. Unlucky for them that the Environmental Protection Agency, meddling with their facility for storing captured spirits, lets the damnable things loose. Panic in the streets! And glorious opportunities for political as well as paranormal satire...
...trio was back yesterday at Red Top, the Crimson camp for the annual Harvard-Yale crew race, to recount that and other hair-raising experiences...
...Club in Shanghai, 1935. Presenting Miss Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and her pan-Asian chorus line in a delicious rendition of Cole Porter's Anything Goes-in Mandarin Chinese! At a nearby table, Professor Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is haggling for his life with a trio of Chinese gangsters: the diamond in his possession in return for a vial containing the antidote to a poison he has just swallowed. Gong! another production number commences, with Indy and Willie scrambling on the floor to find the antidote and the diamond among flying ice cubes, bullets, balloons and feet...
...That trio was an integral part of the Crimson squad that recovered from a poor early-season start to record an 8-6 overall mark, a 3-3 Ivy record and a second-place ranking in New England...