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...over-all negativity, however, prevails. Whether attempts to make the film a little less depressing, or intentional ironies, even the "cheery" touches contribute to the movie's bitter aftertaste. Perturbing rather than entertaining. Harry and Son is a skillful tribute to life and to America at its ugliest...
...ADMINISTRATION officials have acted more consistently to show the ugliest features of Reaganism than White House counselor Edwin Meese III. It was Meese who recently raised anew the Reagan government's callousness and insensitivity, when he questioned concern over hunger in the country, and implied that many people in soup lines were really not impoverished. It was Meese who led the Administrations push for tax exemptions for colleges that racially discriminate. And it was Meese who has worked actively to enact the President's notorious directive of March 11, 1983, which seeks to create what is essentially a lifetime censorship...
...Here's where the effects of the oil crisis become really complicated. Here, too, greed shows its ugliest face. When the leaders of Arab nations found themselves virtually buried by Western oil money they initially had almost nothing to buy. Although in the last few years increasing expenditures and decreasing revenues have narrowed this surplus (in some OPEC cases eliminating and even reversing it, as in Venezuela and Nigeria), at first the leaders of Arab nations had little to do with their wealth other than send it right back to Western banks...
After staging a week-long campaign in which he beat out 10 other candidates, MIT senior William D. Felling, was voted this year's "Ugliest Man On Campus...
...contest chairperson Lisa Maiocco denied rumors that Felling had won the title as "Ugliest Man" unfairly, "He had a lot of natural talent," she said...