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...Constantin Costa-Gavras, the movie is a fictionalized account of the real-life killing of an American official in Uruguay. Calling Stevens' action bald censorship, directors of as many as a third of the films to be shown in the opening festivities withdrew, leaving Stevens with a blank screen to fill-and a perhaps lasting legacy of bitterness for the fledgling film institute...
...enshrining education, Mann built upon a Western tradition rooted in the Enlightenment. John Locke believed that all minds at birth were blank slates and all children were equally and infinitely educable. To Rousseau, education made men good, and through them made society better. But for the most part in England and France those notions remained only ideals, kept from fulfillment by the twin barriers of social class and privilege. In the New World, however, they flowered into a secular religion. Ragged immigrants were supposed to be molded into Americans through their education, which provided even the poorest child with...
...July 1, Congress should give the corporation the go-ahead to keep operating its present network.* The department also called on Congress to increase Amtrak's $100 million in Government loan guarantees to $500 million and requested that Amtrak be given an "open-ended appropriation," in effect a blank check to finance operations. The department cited "notable gains" for Amtrak, and the praise was not undeserved. Despite its miserable start, Amtrak and its riders can really see light at the end of the long, dark tunnel...
WHEN MURRAY BURNS shambles down Park Avenue at dawn, hat jauntily back and screeching at the blank buildings something like "Okay, rich people, there's volleyball down here at nine o'clock sharp--come on, let's snap it up!" he is irresistible. In Leverett House's A Thousand Clowns moment like these win out against some pretty heavy odds...
...occurred, or deduct interest paid on nonexistent loans. Before his recent fraud conviction, one Texas expert encouraged clients who owned dogs or parakeets to classify themselves as farmers and claim depreciation allowances. In ghetto areas, where knowledge of tax law is skimpy, some hustlers get clients to sign a blank return for a flat sum of, say, $50. The preparer then fills out the form and arranges to have the rebate-often $500 or more-mailed to himself...