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Everyone seems to think that Lew Crampton is a nice guy. "An unusually attractive candidate," Frank says. "Unquestionably qualified for the job, personally and professionally," Crampton supporter and State Rep. Mel King says. Yet on the eve of the election, Crampton is fighting to be seen, saying, "Sure, visibility has been a big problem." He just came off a weekend "big blitz" of the state--on the road with three Winnebagos--to talk and press flesh and distribute some 50,000 pieces of campaign literature...
...Mel Peoples, co-head shop steward for the Harvard dining halls, said yesterday the kitchen workers do not plan a walkout or work slowdown to protest the contract, but "are going to start compiling demands for the next contract...
...serious point of the whole film. I believe you've got to pay for your laughs in a film--or else it's Mel Brooks. I was trying to point out people's lack of concern with tragedy that is not their own--and rightly so, since it's the only way we can survive. The people in the film are like those in the audience--and they react the same...
...films like this - and Marathon Man a couple of years ago - detach the Nazis from the historical wickedness that their kind committed and that we do well to bear in mind, and make them into faintly risible characters, just a step or two away from Mel Brooks creations. No amount of fancy framing can finally distract us from this unfortunate and diminuating effect...
...Mel Peoples, chief shop steward of the Harvard dining halls, yesterday declined to comment on any future negotiations pending a "more in-depth study...