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...DANSON The 50-year-old actor told David Letterman that a Blockbuster clerk, seeing first his hair (undyed, gray), then his charge card (whereon he's called Edward), asked if he was Ted Danson's father. Danson said he said...
...science today is offering an elaborately conditioned answer about where extraterrestrial life might possibly be. Two American astronomers have found a planet or two outside our solar system whereon conditions exist (liquid water the temperature of hot tea, for example) that may be hospitable to life...
...from being a pure and timeless island whereon youth can meet untrammeled to test body and spirit in the full glory of individual competition, the Olympics have become one ol the most dramatic and powerful political arenas of the century Palestinian terrorists understood that when in 1972 they crashed into Munich and left eleven Israelis dead. The Olympics so dramatically catch the attention of the world that hey have become an irresistible repository for all kinds of political hopes, benign and malevolent...
...deaccession form. On this occasion, Hoving overrode him, though, in theory, the Met's official de-accessioning procedure is full of checks and balances. "Generally," says the Met, "the curator recommends de-accessioning of a work of art to the vice director, curator in chief and the director," whereon the final decision to de-access lies with the Acquisitions Committee or, if the object -like the Rousseau-is worth more than $25,000, with the board of trustees itself. But such safeguards are in practice vulnerable to a strong impetus from the director, since very few of the present...
...editor who comes home one afternoon to find his daughter (Katharine Houghton) engaged to a too-too successful doctor (Sidney Poitier) who, in the jargon of the early 60's, "happens to be a Negro." Of course the liberal editor turns out to have trouble practicing what he preaches, whereon the plot of the movie is hinged. William Rose's screenplay offers humor (the girl's parents' reaction on meeting Poitier; his parents' reaction on meeting Miss Houghton), suspense (who will talk to whom in which room next?), and incisive social commentary (we are brothers under the skin). Some reviewers...