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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oldman as the randy playwright and Alfred Molina as the whining Halliwell necessarily make the film, because Bennett and Frears have all but ignored the charged times in which the Orton story unfolded. Although painstaking detail masterfully recreates the setting of the story, the filmmakers have largely eschewed an attempt to depict the explosive social scene of 1960s London...
...rapacious tax collector standing between businessmen and the creation of wealth. The result is an Administration whose clarion call is "Enrich thyself." For Reagan, money is the measure of achievement, and he has left no doubt that he prefers the company of the wealthy. McFarlane, shortly after his suicide attempt in February, told the New York Times of the frustrations he felt as National Security Adviser: "Shultz and Cap Weinberger and Don Regan and the Vice President had built up businesses and made great successes of themselves. I haven't done that. I had a career in the bureaucracy...
...claw her way into show business. As Margarita Cansino, a member of a famous family of Spanish dancers, she was dancing 20 shows a week professionally when she was in her early teens. Her father made his daughter his partner, and dyed her brown hair black in an attempt to make her look more Latin. Precociously alluring as well as arrestingly attractive, Rita soon found a place in such B-grade movies as Under the Pampas Moon (1935). At 18 she married Edward Judson, a sometime auto salesman who at once saw what was wrong: her real appeal...
...this wheel of parking fortune: parking tickets and towings. One day, Walser left her car in Harvard Square. The only parking spot she could find was one which had been blocked off by "No Parking" signs and had a fluorescent "No Parking" sticker on the meter. In a desperate attempt, Walser moved the signs, cut off the sticker, put money in the meter, and left...
Both Harvard Magazineand my ballot arrived on the same day. They're a little less ham-fisted this year, but it's the same attempt at maipulatin what purports to be a democratic election process. And just to play it safe, the University again chose as a "neutral vote-counter" its own CPA firm, Coopers & Lybrand...