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...president's daughter, Utopia, disagrees with her father's policies and rebels against him. After swiping the key to a weapon that would destroy all the world's power sources and send humankind back to the dark ages, she runs away to Los Angeles. The president recruits Snake to penetrate the seedy depths of the world's most lawless city to recover the device. To raise the stakes, the president's thugs inject Plissken with a virus that gives him only a few hours to live. The big question, of course, is whether Plissken can recapture the device and survive...
...Wyomia Tyus in '64 and '68 to repeat in the 100, was quick to bank her joy with concern for the loved ones of the people injured and killed in the blast at Olympic Park. "It's hard to enjoy this," said Devers, "knowing that someone is trying to destroy the Olympic spirit. But they won't be able to do that unless we let them...
...hazards of exploring the wreckage in the dark as equivalent to diving into an underwater junkyard. TIME's Elaine Rivera reports from East Moriches: "Divers are having serious problems getting to parts of the plane. Every day that goes by brings us less and less information, and threatens to destroy evidence through prolonged exposure to seawater, but the investigators are holding on. They are still determined to find the answers, but compared to a week ago, they are more somber and tired. The team is resigned to a long, slow process and they know that there are no easy answers...
...project has not been all fun: last fall, conflict arose over the University's plan to divide the Union's Great Hall in half. Preservationists argued that the hall's architectural and historical value made it too important to destroy. In March, alums opposed to the renovation obtained a court order halting the project, and work was stopped for a week...
Despite the weakness of "Professor" as a whole, it is impressive to see Murphy destroy a stand-up comic and, in the process, stretch his own comic persona's self-assuredness to the breaking point. Yet his efforts are lost in all this material This, perhaps, is the essential failure of "The Nutty Professor"--low comedy and boring plotting weigh down the film's potential...