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...welcome, is only a gesture in the direction of what will be necessary to avert insoluble problems in the future. "The ! most formidable obstacles to action," says Benedick, are "the entrenched economic and political interests" of the world's most advanced nations. It is in those countries, warns Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N., that "the pain of adjustment will be greatest...
...that no nuclear reactor, either water-cooled or gas-cooled, is totally safe as long as it produces radioactive waste. The U.S. alone has generated thousands of metric tons of "hot" debris, including enough spent fuel to cover a football field to a height of three feet. Said Sir Crispin Tickell, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations: "The fact that every year there is waste being produced that will take the next three ice ages and beyond to become harmless is something that has deeply impressed the imagination...
...critics have raised more substantive issues. One charge is that the well-to-do Huxtables are hardly representative of the vast majority of black families in this country. (Or many white ones, for that matter; no problem with child care in this two-income family.) Critic Mark Crispin Miller has claimed that the show provides the white audience with false reassurance that racial troubles have vanished. "On The Cosby Show, it appears as if blacks in general can have, or do have, what many whites enjoy," he writes. "And there are no hard feelings, none at all, now that...
...what if the adolescent is a sullen, inarticulate psychotic? And what if he commits murder, not mischief? And what if his crowd, which contains no Molly Ringwalds or Matthew Brodericks and is led by a perpetually jumped-up speed freak (daringly played by Crispin Glover), still attempts to protect him from the law's vengeance...
...most part, Back to the Future is characteristically a summer movie with its emphasis on light-hearted fun. Marty's parents George (Crispin Glover) and Lorraine (Lea Thompson) are the quintessential kids of the '50s. To Lorraine's ingenuous facade, Thompson brings dashes of practiced sophistication that catch you off guard...