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DIED. Fernando Lamas, 67, charmingly stylish Argentine-born actor whose roles were largely limited to playing the Latin lover and villain in two dozen American films; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...polls are confusing too. A national sampling of voters taken by the Los Angeles Times in August on who or what might be responsible for the recession chose as the No. 1 villain foreign oil prices, followed by Japanese competition and Congress. More people blamed Jimmy Carter (No. 8 on the blameworthy list) than Reagan (No. 9), and more pointed a finger at the Democratic Party (No. 7) than at the Republican Party (No. 10). On the other hand, White House aides are baffled by polls showing that voters approve Reagan's policies of cutting Government spending, fighting inflation...
WHEN CHIEF VILLAIN Darth Vadar managed to escape Luke Skywalker's Force-Ful onslaught in the closing minutes of Star Wars, you just knew that George Lucas was keeping the door open for a sequel. When Rocky ended with hero Sly Stallone losing a close one to the champ, you knew he'd come back itching for a rematch. But when George and Kathy Lutz scrambled from their collapsing haunted home before the credits rolled up for The Amityville Horror, you thought the chances for an Amityville Horror II crumbled right along with that dreadful over-spooked mansion...
...Mines and Men," by Michael McClung '83 features the struggle of the ingenue, Angela Mercy, and her true-love, Dwight Tornado, to recover Angela's gold mine from the clutches of the arch-villain, Gustav Yuvantsum...
...rumpled enough for a labor leader, never managing to appear as weary and wise as his baseball counterpart, Marvin Miller, or as old, Garvey, 42, has been taken as a lightweight villain around the sport for twelve years. "Garvey wants power," says Gene Klein, who owns the San Diego Chargers. "He's trying to put himself in the position of czar. He fell on his face before, and he'll fall on his face again." Knowing his is a face that does not exactly warm the cockles of football fans' hearts, Garvey has frequently turned over...