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...photographer. The craziest of all the leftover journalists, he is also the most aware of the real situation. In the tensest scene of the movie, Rockoff and a British friend try to doctor a British passport to allow Pran to escape. Their last minute failure is ironic enough to wrench a theater-ful of popcorn-filled guts...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cambodia Witness | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell may throw a wrench into Harvard's plans for developing the site of an old elementary school it recently purchased about one-half mile northwest of Radcliffe Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Threatens to Snag Harvard Land | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

...precisely here that one should wrench his attention away from what traditionally seems to matter in considering a movie and focus it on what truly matters. "Yes-oh, dear, yes-the novel tells a story," E.M. Forster once announced in a self-described "drooping regretful voice," and it is the same, only more so, with movies. Having provided richly for this simple need, Benton is free to turn to what really interests him: the quality of the lives that people lead between the plotlines, their sense of the world and of their connections with it. In particular, his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Search for Connections | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Throwing a monkey wrench into all the GOP calculations is the extensive voter registration efforts going on around the country on behalf the Democratic. "We're the minority party in the country," says Reagan campaign side Buckley. "If the Democrats register one voter for every Republican they'll have a chance in November...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: The Reaganaut | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...Evening News, pointing out some of the military's worst excesses. Roth decorated a Christmas tree with $100 in odds and ends, for which the Pentagon--with its "cost-plus" method of insuring that all contractors make huge profits--would have paid as much as $100,000. A small wrench that Roth bought for 12 cents had been purchased by the Pentagon...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Den of Thieves | 1/10/1984 | See Source »

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