Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Halamka, a senior, is one of a growing number of students who have caught the entrepreneurial fever at Stanford...
...club directs marathon fever towards a plausible goal," said Timothy Bechtold '84. "Marathons are very exciting and they're something that anyone can do." The Griffin Club is a bunch of people who have caught the fever," he added...
...popular music at climactic scenes is likewise questionable: in the final scene, when vengeance is pounding recklessly towards fulfillment, the Talking Heads' "Psycho-Killer" erupts out of nowhere as servants sprinkle the grappling bodies with red glitter. The ploy only adds a dash of Saturday Night Fever to an already macabre event. And the updating is not uniform throughout. Sudden bursts of gunshots in the final scenes startle an audience grown used to the clash of swords. In duelling scenes, digital watches glint on the wrists of saber-holding swashbucklers...
...going is tough for Western journalists in Jakarta. Doors are shut to all but the craftiest, and Sukarno has whipped up anti-West feeling to a fever-pitch among the masses. But Hamilton catches the eye of the most fascinating character of the movie. Billy Kwan, a diminutive Eurasian photographer who seems to be the most well-connected person in town. Kwan, played by a woman, Linda Hunt, takes a liking to Hamilton and gets him a prized interview with the leader of the Indonesian communists who are about to launch their doomed coup of 1965. An unlikely team...
...Harvard undergraduates feel their opportunity for jobs is enhanced by studying economics," he said. He also noted that the course is "carefully polished," with work books, at least four types of sections, and "an outstanding staff of young teachers," and that public interest in economics is currently at "a fever pitch...