Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuisinart and purees them into The Latest Thing. We are the '30s gone hip, the '40s with leaner muscles, the '50s in Reeboks, the '60s with no sweat. And if movies are the gilded reflection of American popular culture, then a half-century of movies about teenagers traces a curious evolution of the adolescent spirit. The Andy Hardy series gave us romance without passion. The James Dean movies of the '50s offered passion without pleasure. In the "beach-party" pictures of the early '60s, teenagers got pleasure but no sex; and in the recent gross-outs of Porky...
...lobby of Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel featured a curious display last week: a large butter sculpture of a donkey. The perishable sculpture, as well as complimentary airline tickets and an elaborate reception at the Atlanta Historical Society, was intended to show the visiting Democratic National Policy Commission what an excellent host Atlanta could be for the Democratic National Convention in 1988. Although the Democratic and Republican political conventions are still more than two years away, selection committees are already touring the nation to check out arenas and exhibition halls at potential sites. Bidding is highly competitive: the Democrats have...
Along time ago, in a conference room far, far away . . . it was ordained that sword-and-sorcery movies would be the Next Big Thing. Just imagine crossing the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas! Mythic reverberations! Megabucks! Didn't work. The crossbreeding produced curious offspring: the low- birth-weight Dragonslayer, the gnarled Krull, the sepulchral The Keep. Most 1980s moviegoers found the landscapes of these films too remote, the quests too familiar, the special effects too rudimentary--no laser blades here, just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales...
...Music Department. "Majors don't have anything to do with musical interest," says Pierce, a history concentrator. Though most Harvard music courses require proficiency with at least one musical instrument, Tcherepnin does not enforce this. Instead, the music professor says he looks for students who are open-minded, curious, and interested in learning. Pierce says she first discovered the course a few years ago when a friend brought her up to the electronic music studio on the third floor of Paine Hall. After talking to Tcherepnin, she was admitted on the basis of her determination and "the professor's vibes...
...BEST THING that I can do here is to pile on the kudos and to try to explain Gargantua to the curious and the hyperanalytical. The script is based on Pantagruel, a book written by Rabelais in 1532, and its subsequent prequel, Gargantua, written in 1534. Watson, a Medieval History and Literature concentrator, turned it into a script with a little help from his tutor...