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...idea in Simon: five brilliant but loony scientists at the "Institute for Advanced Concepts" decide that the American public is ready to meet a full-fledged alien in its already alienated society. They search for a middle-aged male orphan whose memory they plan to deprogram, and then convince him that his mother was a spaceship who dropped him on earth from an advanced civilization where humans are made the way we make toasters. One Simon Mendelssohn becomes their victim, an untenured professor of psychology who is slightly off the deep end already...
...suits Lydia Lunch's voice perfectly. What prevents the whole affair from degenerating into the ridiculous is the presence of Pat Irwin's electric guitar. Irwin seems more of a collaborator than a player throughout, and she executes her sonic attacks with ruthless efficiency. The overall conception is very alien; as the band begins to swing, Irwin launches an atonal, heavily feedbacked solo that cuts right through the soul of the song...
...encouragement that Massachusetts gave Kennedy, the state may have changed the Republican race far more dramatically. On the surface, Reagan had good reason to be satisfied by the tally, finishing a respectable third in a state that was alien territory. He thanked the voters for giving him and Wife Nancy what he called a splendid present for their 28th wedding anniversary, which fell on the day that voters cast their ballots. On Saturday, Reagan got an even more glittering prize when he soundly defeated Connally in the South Carolina primary. With most of the ballots counted, Reagan was winning nearly...
...these two moorings of diplomatic practice. But it was not unique. When mobs sacked the U.S. embassy in Tripoli last year, Washington strongly accused Libyan authorities of allowing it. "Civilized countries have no possibility of retaliation, because to arrest the envoy of an offending power in return is alien to our concepts," Italian Diplomat Ducci complains. "Why do we then continue to offer hostages to imams and to fortune?" Enrico Jacchia, a noted Italian political scientist, is somewhat more philosophical: "We assumed that the Western principle of diplomatic immunity could be applied everywhere in the Third World. In other words...
...script hits as often as it misses when it relies on humor that is generally accessible, as it does in the second scene in the Somerville apartment. But the little lawyers continually rely on in-jokes, strings of innuendos and associations totally in-comprehensible to anyone alien to their peculiar colony. Prof. Peter Murray plays a Professor Perinifield in a scene in an HLS classroom: I think he is modeled on someone and I am sure he is very funny. There is another sketch at something called the Daily Gannett, which I think parodies the Law School newspaper, except...