Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows us what we did not know. It brings forth not the debased Rodin of popular culture, or Rodin the herald of a modernism he did not live to see, but the actual artist, embedded in the 19th century, soaked in its values and yet struggling to transcend and alter them. It also clarifies, as never before, the taxing issue of what makes a Rodin "original." He did not work like a modern artist. He seldom carved his own marbles, never cast his bronzes, and turned his models over to assistants so that they could be done in a gamut...
...many, including several Independent candidates, say they think there are simply not enough CCA votes to alter the balance. "It'll be closer than usual, but it won't be different when everything gets added up," one former Independent councilor said. "All those people draw on the same voters, and there are only so many people in West Cambridge (a CCA stronghold...
...electoral mandate, the President last week threw down the gauntlet to Congress. Said Ronald Reagan at his press conference: "I am asking Congress today to deliver to my desk before the August recess not one, but two bills-a spending bill and a tax bill." Determined to alter the direction of Federal Government and, as he put it, "rescue the economy from high inflation and high unemployment," Reagan has become impatient with those Congressmen who have flinched at supporting his new economic proposals. "There is no longer any reason to delay," he insisted...
...Raiders is a director's movie. Aside from keeping pace with the plot, there is little to be done for the actors short of giving wonderfully telling looks. That is not to cut anyone down. Everyone, from Belloq (who comes off looing like Francois Truffaut's alter ego) or Toht have distinctive characteristics that are easily enough identified, and a hint of more. But if more were delivered, it would only weigh the movie down. For it is Spielberg's sense of timing that propels Raiders into the realm of the magnificent. He is a master of setting an audience...
Putnam, however, added that his personal support of a policy change did not mean that "the Corporation would unilaterally alter its policy without first consulting the Harvard community." Putnam also reassured students that he would not interfere with the independent review of Harvard's bank-loan policy being conducted by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...