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...moment's peace. For if you do have such a moment, you may as well think about a physics problem that's not been solved yet, or finish a chapter in math or, for heaven's sake, finish reading Homer, or go over the geology lecture, or write an essay for Expository Writing," he wrote...
...PROMising students receive academic prizes. Our magazine and two cooperating corporations are pleased to join in the festivities again this spring. More than 800 students entered the annual TIME Education Program (TEP) contests, and the 12 winners received a total of $31,500 in scholarships. In the high school essay contest, co- sponsored by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the grand prize went to Michele Host of Badger Union High, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She wrote a moving tribute to her mother, who taught her that "learning begins in the home, and with the family." Other star writers: Robert Farrell...
...Britain, and Alain Cavalier's potent French film Libera Me, a deadpan document, in wordless closeup, of political prisoners and their torturers in an unnamed country -- any country, alas. Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, a sequel of sorts to his great Wings of Desire, is a monumentally quirky film essay that gradually, and satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both set in the '50s and '60s: Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, from China, and The Odor of Green Papaya, a lovely Vietnamese film made in France by writer...
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