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...course, legal services has some committed admirers too, and it was their fervent lobbying on Capitol Hill that apparently kept LSC alive. The American Bar Association and other elements of the legal community enlisted every silver tongue and strong arm they could muster-from former Attorney General Elliot Richardson to former General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy. Another boost came from a New York Times-CBS News poll showing that 83% of Americans opposed reductions in legal services spending. The President is surely unhappy with the outcome, but he is not expected to veto it, because the appropriation will be only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: One More Narrow Escape | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...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 »

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