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...remaining films in the series, "The Bandwagon" (1953) and "An American in Paris" (1951), winner of seven Academy Awards, will be screened free of charge tonight and Friday afternoon at Carpenter Center, after which Minnelli will continue discussing his work...
...ships in Aqaba harbor, was also worrisome to the Israelis. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping on the Iraqi bandwagon. I have the impression that this is not a very wise move on his part." The King justified his support for Iraq on the ground of Arab solidarity, but Western diplomats believe that he was taking a bold gamble. The Israelis always get nervous and trigger-happy, they pointed...
...according to Iraqi reports. Jordan's King Hussein publicly applauded the attack. Kuwait's official news agency, which reflects the views of the ruling family, adopted a hawkish, pro-Iraq stand. To varying degrees, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman all jumped on the Iraqi bandwagon...
What happened? As with anything new, the uniqueness of the Core faded after a while, and enthusiasm about it waned. Faculty members who were excited by the Core hopped on the bandwagon at the beginning, and those who were not seized by the euphoria of the program--the majority, it seems--remained complacently in their departments. To use Rosovsky's terminology, a good number of professors met the Core's "challenge" that first year, but many more were either too lazy or uninterested to pay attention...
...habit; Dallas arouses demonstrative loyalty. Millions of Dallas T shirts, bumper stickers and buttons are festooning torsos, fenders and lapels. Haifa dozen "J.R." novelty records are heading for the charts. Society matrons are planning Dallas costume parties for the night the program returns. Politicians have climbed on the bandwagon too. Jimmy Carter, at a Dallas fund raiser, confessed with a grin: "I came to Dallas to find out confidentially who shot J.R. If any of you could let me know that, I could finance the whole campaign this fall." Perhaps not: at the Republican Convention, Reaganites distributed buttons that read...