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Vellucci, who said he thinks his role as moderator at the forum will not be a conflict of interest, said he hopes to recapture the politics of "yesteryear" when "all the public forums and meetings were held in the streets, not at teas and coffee klatches...
...where are those electromechanical marvels of yesteryear? Contact and Bumper, Dragonette, Humpty Dumpty and Nudgy? Possibly they have been salvaged and soldered to play again another year. But if their relay points, solenoids and 500 yds. of wiring have finally expired, there is hope for them yet. Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified...
...entire movie industry may well have missed the point on the bonanza of Star Wars [Aug. 22]: the reason for the success of Wars is not the sci-fi appeal; it is the fun of the movie. Star Wars is a movie of today, like the romantic movies of yesteryear...
...Bond girl, Barbara Bach. Very pretty, especially as seen in cushioned escape bubble. But dewy as a debutante ("Oh! James!"). Hard to believe her as dangerous spy. Where are the Honor Blackmans and Diana Riggs of yesteryear? Roger Moore, as Bond, a road-company Sean Connery. At least he's improvement on that instant-trivia question, George Lazenby...
...with the Harvard of yesteryear, the Summer School's academic requirements for admissions are fairly loose. In fact, they're virtually non-existent: all you need to get in is proof that you're enrolled in a degree-granting institution of higher-education, or, if you're in high school, a letter from your guidance. The chief criterion for admission is ability to pay, and as there's no general financial aid program, most of the students here are people whose families are well enough off that they can avoid the tedium of a boring summer job, or go-getters...