Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that Harvard is acting without conscience, for without even asking the faculty or alumni, it tells us that we, the students, form too small a "constituency" for our opinion to be respected. And worse yet, it attempts to excuse itself on the grounds that what it does, it does out of the moral conviction that by being mute it is really helping the South African people...
...movie's slapstick escapades, it never turns into a Three Stooges picture. Director Robert Zemeckis' broad style frequently rises above silliness to be come a form of pop surrealism. The tip-off to his intentions occurs early on, when he shows us a mob of screaming girls grabbing up copies of Meet the Beatles in a store that stocks only Beatles albums. The scene is not faithful to reality but to our memories of that time. Such dreamlike exaggerations allow Zemeckis to cut to the very heart of his material...
...result of a fall; in Wimbledon, England. As lead vocalist for the folk-rock group Fairport Convention, Denny became Britain's top female vocalist at the end of the 1960s, respected for her quiet professionalism and musical inventiveness, then left at the peak of her popularity to form another group, Fotheringay, which floundered. After a brief reunion with Fairport, she went on to solo in England...
...circuit. That, ironically, is where Bretécher was last week−the American, not the French−making press appearances in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote her book. That task must trouble the satirist without an ideology. "Comic strips are a form of con," she confesses. "All you do is play along with something that works, and suddenly people are asking for your opinions on everything. It's all baloney." Could be, but she does slice it with undeniable flair...
...becomes an empty and token gesture). A white employee could go to court over the abridgement of his "right" to segregated facilities. Given the history of government actions, he'd be almost sure to win. How could a corporation give non-whites the right to strike in any effective form when it would be illegal for them to gather at once or hold a picket or demonstration? And even if corporations respected a strike, the government could deport the strikers to their Bantustans and quickly end the strike...