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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several other legislators with large teenage constituencies have warned that raising the drinking age at midnight on April 1 would encourage last-minute parties, especially since March 31 is a Saturday. State Rep. William G. Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He recommended allowing the usual 90-day grace period because students would be out of school when the law goes into effect and therefore less likely to protest...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: The Party's Over | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...movie, starring Brad Davis (Midnight Express), and directed by Rob Cohen (The Wiz), concerns life in the '60s. Shooting at Harvard will begin March 26, Alexandra said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nearly 800 Pack Lowell JCR, Audition for Bit Parts in Film | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

This is not to say that the songs, and the experiences themselves, are not quite moving. Again Woods, now suffering vicious midnight flashbacks, completely silences the audience as she tells of her abortion. In "John," Ravenal, too, is convincing as the confidante who can never quite become the lover...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Midnight Express, At Harvard Square. Monday at 12 noon, 3:55 and 7:55 p.m. With The Last Detail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around Cambridge | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Midnight Express. If you want to be blown away by emotional intensity, but don't want to pay five bucks and travel to Boston for The Deer Hunter, try Midnight Express, right here in Harvard Square. Another politically naive and outright xenophobic Hollywood product, Midnight Express still succeeds in conveying a very forceful statement of individual will. The story of an arrogant American college kid who gets caught (through his own stupidity) trying to smuggle hash home for his friends, the movie works because it is beautifully filmed and edited, because the violence, though abundant, is carefully placed, and because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Man of the Hour, on Some Of the Best Films of the Year | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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