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...reminds me of a story a friend of mine tells. He was writing for a Southern paper of some pretensions. He was interested in writing stories with a political twist, and had some success in getting them published, but never on Sunday. When he asked an editor about this, he was told, "You write too many 'bummers.' People don't want to read bummers on Sunday." The editor went on to show him a copy of a model story for the Sunday page. It was a report of a woman with a retarded child. The woman owned an ice cream...
...movie pioneer who produced more than 100 films and conceived the idea for a rating system that culminated in the current G, PG, R and X movie designations to guide audiences; in Hollywood. Son of a nickelodeon operator, Lesser was responsible for such features as the 1922 Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan, and the Academy Award-winning 1951 documentary Kon-Tiki...
...Harvard men's soccer team put a new twist on the end of the same old story yesterday, waiting until early in the first overtime period to snatch two quick goals and a 3-1 victory over the UMass Minutemen at the Business School Field...
...tries to twist a number of other cliches of the was movie but it starts with a basic formula: a tough, leathery sergeant (Lee Marvin) who survived The First War returns to Europe leading a pack of good but green recruits against Hitler's huns. Mark Hamill is the soft-spoken hero with a streak of cowardice. Bobby DiCicco is the eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from...
...home of Democrats," he said. "In this great country there are millions of Democrats as unhappy as we are with the way things are going." Honoring the generations of immigrants, Reagan, in top oratorical form, once again evoked the words of a Democratic President by putting a twist on a Jack Kennedy line: "They didn't ask what this country could do for them, but what they could do to make this refuge the greatest home of freedom in history. But today a President of the U.S. would have us believe that dream is over, or at least...