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...ultimately, I did get home to New York for Christmas eve, arriving barely half an hour before midnight. Family and friends judged from the gifts I had brought home that I had become an utter wastrel, but on Christmas morning I remembered a more severe case than myself, and phoned Boston to find out where Namo was, and what I could do for him. And so, when Namo awakened on Christmas Day in the Charles Street Jail, it was a candygram from me that first greeted...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Assault on Filene's Basement: A Christmas Fantasy | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...Texan who owned the newspaper from 1974 until he sold it to Time Inc. this year, denies that McGoff ever approached him. McGoff, whose Panax Corp. publishing company acknowledges bidding for the Star before Allbritton bought it, has denounced the Daily Mail story about a South African loan as "utter nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: A Watergate for Pretoria | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

When dealing with bedrock matters of story and character, Paradise Alley is an utter mess. Stallone's two co-stars are blanks on the screen; their personal metamorphoses are too sketchily written and acted to have any impact. The men's love interests (Anne Archer, Joyce Ingalls, Aimee Eccles) are all crassly conceived stereotypes; there is even a hooker with a heart of gold. Whatever credibility exists in the screenplay is soon destroyed by Stallone's direction. Paradise Alley is a cinematic minefield of bizarre transitions, cryptic anecdotes, continuity lapses and mushy dissolves. Despite Laszlo Kovacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Times | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...guidelines' effects on Harvard centers around exactly how much they would restrict the University's budget. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finances, said yesterday the guidelines add "a new dimension to our budgetary planning, but they do not put us into a state of utter panic and siege...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Wage, Price Plan to Affect Harvard; Officials Uncertain About Exact Limits | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

Candidates utter words like "protest," "arrest," "jail," "march," "unity," and "fight." Many students seem in a combative mood, although they have yet to find an issue worth fighting over. The candidates are forced to answer questions revealing their stands on such issues as Harvard's investment policy and the constitution's minority representation clause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

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