Word: classics
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...easy. Successive waves of immigration differ, of course, and a refugee from wartime Europe does not have the same experiences as a refugee from postwar Viet Nam 40 years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw together in protective enclaves where through churches, clubs, cafes, newspapers, the old culture is fiercely maintained; and on the other hand to rush headlong into the American mainstream, seeking to adopt indiscriminately new manners, clothes, technology and sometimes names...
Like earlier immigrant gangs, observes Manhattan-based U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the new arrivals "at the core are acting as parasites on their own people." In classic fashion they concentrate at first on shaking down local merchants. One difference, officials agree, is that the modern gang is vastly more violent and better armed than its predecessors. The Viet Ching, Vietnamese of Chinese extraction in Los Angeles, pack .357 Magnums and, occasionally, machine guns. In San Francisco, says Inspector John McKenna, "it's not uncommon to see guys carrying grenades...
...Eastwood presents us with a character who is a walking mixed metaphor of death, kindness, and virility. The new fusion of Clint as sensitive actor with Eastwood as macho killer might actually be tolerable however, if the entire movie was not such an obvious rip off of Shane, the classic 50s Western with Alan Ladd...
...course of the week, their predicament had changed dramatically. In the beginning, they were caught in a classic political hijacking, at the mercy of two desperate and determined men armed with grenades and a 9-mm pistol. By the third day, however, after more than 100 of the plane's original occupants had been released as the Boeing 727 zigzagged back and forth between Beirut and Algiers, they had become political hostages to a cause that few had previously known much, if anything, about...
Right here on campus. The Harvard Film Archive (Carpenter Center, 34 Quincy St.) plans some good and somewhat obscure classics, not to mention horror and animation screenings. Though its located at artsy-fartsy central, most of the classic films have a distinct proletarian and social commentary bent. Among others, Stanley Kubrick's psycho-nightmare The Shining, his apocalyptic satire Dr. Strangelove and an Eastern European animation festival will fill the screens there this summer...