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Although DeGuglielmo cited the Finance Act, according to whose lame duck provision the Council cannot create city city officers during an election or end-of-the-year period, the Sullivan-Vellucci order passed...
...cold, businesslike attitude to everything, especially love. The trouble is that the movie itself never rises above the crass except briefly, with the street musicians. It's a really great shame the feature had to be so bad this week, since the Brattle has acquired a classic Donald Duck cartoon that shouldn't be missed...
...toned Cadillac purred to a stop on a sleazy block of Manhattan's West 45th Street. Out climbed a distinguished-looking, grey-haired man. He negotiated the litter-strewn sidewalk, threaded his way through a scattering of post-teen wenches in black leather jackets and boys with duck-tailed haircuts. For a moment, he stared dubiously at a hole-in-the-wall honky-tonk called the Peppermint Lounge, then rushed back to the waiting limousine burbling, "This is the place!" Quickly, two men and three women got out and gingerly followed their scout past the long, noisy bar into...
...sportsmen, Siberia is as rewarding as the U.S. West. In summer, entire families go berry picking, and fishermen have their choice of a hundred tumbling trout streams. Fall brings the traditional Russian search for mushrooms in the forests, and hunters throng the duck blinds on the reedy shores of Siberia's many lakes. Winter offers skiing and ice skating. In spring, however, Siberia is as frustrating as almost all Communist countries. Boy can meet girl, but he finds it impossible to take her anywhere that they can be alone. Even if boy marries girl, there is little chance...
...lady with a rolled-up copy of Variety could have done it alone. This particular D-day occurred scarcely a week ago, and the three U.S. soldiers were nothing more than those duck-tailed microphones, Singers Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near...