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Oddity-of-the-month honors go to this low-budget ($400,000) marriage of science fiction and punk. As if herpes and AIDS weren't enough to worry about, we now learn that aliens have come to earth to kill and vaporize horny humans during intercourse. Like Strange Invaders (a much better movie), Liquid Sky says that there is nothing more alien than an earthling circa 1983. The victims here are denizens of New York's underground-zombies of the spirit, existing on quick fixes of drugs and sex-for whom death is just the ultimate high. This...
...Steiner says he is wary nonetheless of the potential for conflicts of interest when a Ropes and Gray lawyer serves on the Corporation, and has urged that the two bodies stay distinct. "There weren't problems in the past," he says, "but in the future I think it's best to keep the two separate...
...chose to use an ill-conceived bit of humor to make amends to a professional businesswomen's group. But to commit two grammatical errors in one brief remark may bring him a flood of mail from the nation's English teachers. He should have said, "If it weren't for women, we men .. ." It would appear that his grammar is as lacking as his ability to know his audience...
...food stamp budget" for one week. We are supposed to be impressed. I have never lived on food stamps, but I have seen the struggles of friends who have. How would you like it, Mr. Block, if your infant went hungry because the milk soured and the food stamps weren't due to come for two more days...
...illness and death associated with yellow rain: the discovery of trichothecene mycotoxins in alleged samples of yellow rain, as well as blood and urine, and a Soviet gas mask found in Afghanistan containing the illegal toxin. Nevertheless, Meselson sums up, "Whatever the source of these toxins, which we weren't able to explain, at least these spots that people are picking up are probably the excrement of bees...