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...That was in the '50s. By the '70s the Metropolitan had become a showcase for hard-core, and that refers to both the film fare and the clientele. As recalled by Jimmy McDonough, the Suetonius of sleaze, the Metropolitan was "a cavernous, ancient ex-vaudeville hall where customers searching for strange flesh skulked through a dark, Lysol-doused passageway hidden behind a flickering screen of endless porno...
...other seven categories include a study of the past, History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said in an interview. The legislation currently lacks an explicit history requirement. Passage of the legislation in a Faculty meeting vote would start a process that would replace the current Core Curriculum with a new set of eight required general education categories emphasizing “real-world” applications of academic learning by as early as Fall 2008. But first, professors will have to contend with no fewer than 10 proposed changes to the legislation in the course...
What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? To leap over handicap-access ramps like Donkey Kong? The answer is parkour, a jaw-dropping hybrid of gymnastics and cross-country running that is equal parts Spider-Man whimsy and hard-core stamina. The word is derived from the French term for obstacle course, and like it or not, U.S. college campuses are becoming hot spots for this exhilarating new breed of steeplechase--horse-free and adaptable to any setting. Google parkour, campus and map, and you'll find, among some 58,000 results, an annotated parkour...
...reason for the vanishing movie female is that the genres in which women used to be equal or dominant--the romantic melodrama and comedy--fell out of favor when the core audience changed from families to teen boys. The guy-kids prefer starker fare: action movies (one man against the system), science fantasy (techies save the solar system) and horror films (where young women are the naked and the dead, usually in that order). What didn't change was Hollywood's view of the sexes: that men are defined by their exploits, women by their emotions. In a movie...
...policy, especially when individual actors like the British government seem paralyzed. Realistic stick threats work as well as real sticks. After all, this crisis challenges the ideological foundations of European unity. Taking hostages goes against democracy, respect for human rights, and the international rule of law–all core values of the European project...