Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the Law School, students flow out into Cambridge through programs like the Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP) and the Volunteers for Income Tax Assistance. Jeffrey Purcell, a second-year law student, says his work with the Legal Aid Bureau gives him a chance actually to argue civil cases in court and is "easily the most satisfying work" he has done since he came to Harvard. In the tax program, student volunteered dispense tax advice to any interested comers...
...THESE brightnesses are exceptions to a general flow of indistinction. The attempts at serious discussion of the social and political implications of the Revolution would be better left out, as would the character of Tom Paine, who speaks essays rather than conversation. Hanna Schygulla, as the Comtesse, has gone from the cold severity of her Fassbinder mold to a comparably fixed part of decadent and shallow seductress--melting her audiences with a look that oozes sexuality. But if her excesses are intended as some sort of comment on the monarchy, or if the excerpts of serious analysis are intended...
...Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff. And if you can't fight and you can't flee, flow...
...When Dr. Redford Williams at Duke University asked a group of male undergraduates to perform a mental arithmetic task (serial subtraction of 13 from 7,683), the Type A students produced 40 times as much cortisol and four times as much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood to their muscles was three times as great, though there was no difference in their level of performance. "The Type A man is responding as though he were in an emergency or threatening situation," says Williams. The jolt of cortisol and epinephrine, he speculates, "could be causing more...
Maas builds his story cinematically, cutting swiftly from malefactor to investigator, from scandal to expose. Marie is destined for the camera, and parts of it already seem clipped from All the King's Men and The Godfather. Chapters over flow with whispered depositions, missing files and subterranean intrigue. Three key witnesses are professionally murdered; a fourth commits suicide under suspicious circumstances. The Justice Department declines to prosecute Blanton. Claims Maas: "It was already clear that in 1980 Jimmy Carter would need every electoral vote he could scrape up. The President might not like the Governor, but he was stuck...