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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connery). It misuses Holm's talents, underuses Cleese's and doesn't use Connery at all-there's no way to turn him into a figure of antic misanthropy. The film finally regains its footing, with the supernal battle between a dithery Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) and a technocratic Evil Genius (David Warner) who has his own ideas about creating the world ("I would have started with lasers, 8 o'clock on Day One!"). But by then it has forfeited any residue of good feeling. Who can care about six dwarfs when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...renovations include a new semi-circular seating arrangement for 350, and improved lighting, acoustics and insulation. The ornate ceiling and stone fireplace, designed in 1883 by Henry Hobson Richardson, have been left untouched...

Author: By Snigdha Prakash, | Title: Ames Courtroom Renovations | 11/7/1981 | See Source »

...derivative as accumulative, encompassing historic epochs, good versus evil, and social commentary, all with a light tongue in cheek. It seems The Supreme Being (pictured for most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes...

Author: By --david M. Handelman, | Title: A Victim of the Modern Age | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

Several students said they were disappointed by the turnout. Justin Richardson '85 said, "I was really disappointed that only six people from all of Harvard walked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Handgun Walk | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Richardson said the senate subcommittee will reconvene at a latter date to review DePaul's guidelines and policies toward student publications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paper Resumes Circulation After University Suspension | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

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