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...always looked for a different angle on the couch: homosexuals in the act, a surrealistic family portrait of a man, woman, and a coyote, and midget actress Zeidah Rubinstein of Poltergeistian fame holding a ruler and magically shrunken sofa. Despite all this ingenuity, the Red Couch never manages to attain true metaphoric nirvana, but it manages to reach the state of a truly useful photographic tool for two talented photographers...
...field where the scientific stakes are as high as the personal ones, researchers often withhold information from each other as government funding is limited. The need to show significant advancement to attain the necessary support to continue research prevents scientists from cooperating with each other, scientists...
...strongest indictment: colleges do not involve new students in the learning process and keep them involved. "Only half of those who enter college with the intention of receiving a bachelor's degree actually attain this goal," says the report. Furthermore, standards have been allowed to slide: "Student performance on eleven of 15 major Subject Area Tests of the Graduate Record Examinations declined between 1964 and 1982." Finally, the colleges have no consistent, reliable ways of assessing what students are learning...
...Currently, I'm drawing up a new charter." Tracy says, adding that the team hopes to attain official University recognition with the help of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. With that, she hopes, will come financial help from the Undergraduate Council...
...years the writer-director has been devising scenarios of mastodon machismo (Jeremiah Johnson, Magnum Force, Big Wednesday, Apocalypse Now) in which Real Men-guys so tough you could ice-skate on them-attain a state of Zen purity through self-denial, cunning and random slaughter. But these films were like peace pamphlets compared with his latest crimson vision. In Red Dawn he and Co-Author Kevin Reynolds suggest that the U.S. is susceptible to military takeover by parachuting Communist troops; that the Soviets would establish "reeducation camps" in Colorado and show Ivan the Terrible at the local moviehouse; and that...