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...defined lit course to a multicultural squad at an Army base. Why the commanding colonel thinks these studies are vitally necessary is not made clear. Especially since the kids turn out be quite sweet and bright and mostly doing fine in basic training. It's all really just a con on the part of the moviemakers, led by director Penny Marshall. The insensitive and materialistic teacher shall learn humility from his students. They shall in turn learn that underneath Shakespeare's big, arcane words and underneath Bill's hard shell, good hearts are athump. We shall all have a nice...
...really want to increase con- tact with greater Cambridge...and with Blackstudents on campus," Goodwyn adds. "We're planninga newsletter, more meetings and informationalthings...
...Within the overall con- straints of reducing the deficit in the Facultyof Arts and Sciences (FAS) and within theconstraints of our overall need to shedadministrative and support positions," Knowlessaid, "I do not doubt that this area is going toneed and receive more support in the near future...
Eugene O'Neill's play A Touch of the Poet at the American Repertory Theatre attempts to knit together the conflicting American consciousnesses of respect for an old order and the self-emancipation of the new. These dichotomies are played out in the domestic sphere of Captain Con Melody's inn during the 1828 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson...
...those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark locks, sensuous mustache and penetrating eyes. Yanni could be Samson with his mane, Jesus with his prophetic utterances or that mysterious European stranger who woos single female travelers, only to turn out to be a con man. What he actually is simple: a sex symbol with a piano and orchestra. He's like Tom Selleck and Neil Diamond rolled up into one, which makes a potentially deadly combination...