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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book reads surprisingly smoothly, despite its heavy technical content. Gould, who won the 1981 American Book Award for Science for his collection of essays called The Panda's Thumb, gracefully mixes statistics, technical terminology and anecdotes to make for an eminently comprehensible volume...
...MAKE ALTERNATIVE films," says Randall Conrad '65. "What Hollywood has to offer is usually little in terms of important content. Their products are glossy packages which have little...
...Park Street, Government Center. Ambassador-Brattle cabs, and tired triple-decker houses in bleak neighborhoods--is tangibly familiar and particularly relevant. Sally rides the T. and her friends write messages on her copy of The Harder They Come. Although written two years ago, the script remains timely in its content. This augments the realism; for example, the state, due to decreasing funds for social services, cancels the vocational education program in which Sally has enrolled, leaving her in financial limbo...
...marked sense of open-endedness. Certainly, Sally's portrayal is made extremely subjective in the directors' choice of cinematic language. Yet the film's seed in reality grows to encompass issues beyond those of most current films. In times of multi-million-dollar fiascos and successes that lack significant content. The Dozens stands as proof that there are effective alternatives...
...They are foreign policy writ large." No longer content with surplus materiel from the arsenals of the superpowers, smaller nations are demanding state-of-the-art equipment in everything from fighters to frigates. Even as they deplore the buildup and fear its consequences, the major arms sellers echo the old dirge of 19th century slave traders: "If we don't sell, someone else will." The only effective restraint on the seller, it seems, is the difficulty in beating competitors to the most lucrative contracts...