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Scandal is an express tour of the Profumo affair that moves with a pop historian's revisionist swagger and plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll. Taking a cue from Asquith's Pygmalion, the film casts Ward (John Hurt) as an aristocratic makeover artist, discovering Keeler (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) in the fetid anonymity of a Soho strip club and turning her into a star of the jet-set slumming circuit. Pluck your eyebrows, Christine. Wet your lips. Come over and say hi to Jack Profumo...
...center is also involved in a program for "writing intensive" sections that emphasize the importance of expression, in addition to content. The Danforth Center also gives awards to teaching fellows who receive top marks in the Committee on Undergraduate Education's (CUE) evaluations...
...Most of the leaders of mainstream Jewish organizations are more circumspect in their public utterances, but they have been bombarding Jerusalem with private warnings that Shamir is losing support in the U.S. Both the Conference of Presidents and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ignored Jerusalem's cue to protest Washington's decision to deal with the P.L.O. Moreover, there has been a growing inclination by Jewish leaders to display what has been quietly obvious for years: a preference for the Israeli Labor Party's more flexible approach. Theodore Mann, former head of the American Jewish Congress, argues that Jewish...
Willey reads the unspoken cue; they are imagining Owens Valley: The Sequel, in which Los Angeles, having glommed up water and put farmers out of business in the now infamous valley south of Mono Basin, casts a thirsty eye their way. He tries to reassure them. The idea is to spread the water-marketing deals around to avoid a concentrated effect on any single farming area. No one is telling farmers to take land out of production or move to the city. A textbook negotiator, Willey subtly points up benefits that the farmers would rather temporarily overlook: Wouldn...
...avoid that problem, the CUE decided to extend sophomore status to candidates who have "satisfactorily completed one semester and are enrolled in the second semester of a foreign language...