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...BIGGEST STUMBLING block to enjoying this film is the difficulty that you will undoubtedly encounter in correctly understanding it. As far as I can remember, the film's plot involved the aforementioned good-looking Arab trying to garner the favour of his people by convincing them that he possesses bizarre mystical and religious powers. (Precisely why he wishes to establish himself as a figure of such supreme adulation is left unclear, but let's just assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course...
...short, despite some fine performances by Streep, Ullman and Sting, Plenty is the fall season's most bitter disappointment. Had Schepisi and Hare been willing to sacrifice the artsy elements in favour of a more straightforward, biographical format, Plenty would have been more than enough...
...returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them...
Others groups, favour a more active stance. At the AFSC Jerry Herman. Coordinator of the South Africa program for the committee. Speaks of a "fall Offensive" that his group will begin this September in conjunction with campus protestors. The AFSC will "take the issue to the people where they area: in churches, campuses even businesses." he says. This fall the AFSC will "take a more aggressive position, even to the level of civil disobedience, to promote their cause. Herman says...
...Williams College still in the process of divesting from two companies the Dresser Corporation and Numont Mining Corporation-that conduct business in south Africa policy is conducted entirely by members of the Williams community. "I believe that the students who favour divesting from South Africa do so because of their own beliefs entirely, there is no outside involvement. "Says Raymond C. Blyer, public information director for the college. Williams is divesting from the two corporations because they did not answer request for statements of compliance with the Sullivan Principles formulated in March...