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...placement of the engines, which went with barely a hitch, suggests a significant change in the 12-year, $230 million saga of never-ending delays and escalating costs. Work is bustling in the engine room where "almost literally nothing was going on a month ago," according to a Harvard official. And the plant will be in full operation by August 1982, barring unforeseen installation and testing problems or court-ordered injunctions, David M. Rosen, director of governmental relations and Harvard's MATEP spokesman, says...
...This is a ridiculous saga," Martin concedes. "I can hardly believe it myself. If the court says I am guilty, then I don't want them to put me in jail. I want them to put me in the nuthouse." Major Don Doyle of the Austin police department agrees: "Nobody wants to send the dumb s.o.b. to the penitentiary...
Like Garp, the new book is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice. Unlike Garp, Hotel aggressively links realism with the tone and symbolism of fable. Imagine a fairy tale dealing explicitly with rape, incest, prostitution and terrorism. Imagine the Brothers Grimm without the dense mythological overlay...
Westmore should know. For Jake La Motta's saga he used gallons of chocolate syrup, an ingredient that simulates blood in black-and-white films. Director Martin Scorsese told him that he wanted both to see and to hear De Niro's nose break, so Westmore constructed a kind of teetertotter proboscis for De Niro that popped when it was hit in the big fight scene. Seven tiny tubes were also attached to the star's face, and when the fake nose went bang, Westmore, who was on the other end of the tubes, began pumping...
...Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 8 million), the largest newspaper in the world, deemed the wedding story important enough to rush in a color photo midway through its evening press run. But by week's end such energy had begun to dissipate. Most reporters were content to leave the saga of Charles and Diana on the note sounded in a Times editorial: "They have a marriage to build and a family to make. They, their advisers, the press and the public should give them room to do it." -By Janice Castro. Reported by Mary Cronin/London