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...rest of this film is poor slapstick. Acting uncoordinated and uneducated for two hours may make you smile once or twice, but it just isn't funny. Chase's most successful film in recent months, rtetch teatured him as a clever journalist who played off of other people's stupidity rather than his own. Audiences want heroes these day, not dupes. That's why Eddie Murphy just bought his fifth Rolls. If Chase is to retain a respectable piece of the humor market, he should drop the meaningless, foolish and disjointed antics concentrating on outwitting others rather than prostrating himself...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Vacate the Premises | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...vibrations from the windowpane. The most insecure place to store information is probably a computer. A study by the Department of Defense Computer Security Center in Fort Meade, Md., concluded that only 30 out of about 17,000 DOD computers are even minimally secure against intrusion by clever hackers. Though no one has ever been caught doing it, the mere thought of Soviet intelligence plugging into Defense Department computers, particularly the ones that command the American nuclear arsenal, is the stuff of Hollywood chillers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Ship of State Leaks | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

Gingerich managed to include some clever trick in each of his lectures-Whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Worth The Price of Admission | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...does one move from a subtle, sophisticated, clever, astute and learned individual to being a good person in the small, everyday things in life...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Bok, Spence Praise Core Program; Coles Tells Alumni To Be Moral | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Even the slogan has been cut back this year. Unlike past years, no clever motto has been created. Instead there is just a big Harvard shield with the number 60 next...

Author: By John N. Rosenthai, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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