Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Labyrinthine tales like this (based on William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel) rarely make it to the screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep...
Coerced liberalism is a poor mask for intolerance. Coors may have brought a prejudiced and authoritarian message to Harvard, but it was a message he has every right to express. Harvard students should not be applauded for respecting that right. Because we have in the past proved ourselves intolerant, the University was tragically justified in its use of police-state tactics. Harvard students "did themselves proud" only because they were left no option...
None of us in the Academy questions his right to teach and to express his point of view. When Professor Womack was attacked by William Buckley and by some Harvard alumni in statements to President Bok, we defended his right to teach and to a position at Harvard...
Martin Marietta, which produces Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, was the first U.S. firm to sign up a client. It plans to launch an ExpressStar communications satellite for Federal Express in 1989. Says Richard Brackeen, a vice president in charge of launch systems for Martin Marietta Aerospace: "The private launching business could be the next widebody jet business...
...power elite obscures the need for the kind of meeting so many members of our community requested. Students asked for the seven men who run Harvard to explain some of the decisions they routinely make in the name of the entire community. And they also requested the opportunity to express their own opinions about how Harvard is--and should...