Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some say we should reject assimilation. A friend of mine questions why the newest generation of New York Jews wants to attend Harvard. If we all just went to City College like our parents did we would be in just as good an educational environment and we would not have to sell out and become part of America's dominant class and its aristocracy, he argues...
...immigrants come to this University anyway, some becoming part of its most stifling traditions, others resisting them but still receiving the Harvard seal of assimilation on their resume. Most are probably less cynical than my friend, and more similar to my grandparents, viewing their educational triumph as a culmination rather than an aberration. Getting into Harvard means acceptance. But often that assimilation can mean changing the immigrant heritage without changing the institution...
...mistress and her dumb-stud pal decide to blackmail the fashion mogul. While trying to videotape Stone murdering his wife, they succeed only in filming the local police chief with a prostitute in his car. Here, the movie attempts to develop the characters, depicting the plotting woman and her friend as too sensitive to watch the alleged murder on the videotape...
...spirited" Mrs. Saunders (Lisa Peers). In one overly graphic scene, Clive's solicitousness of Mrs. Saunders entails under-the-skirt oral sex. But Betty (Daniel Luke Zelman), Clive's wife, is not exactly pure either. Harry Bagley (Christian Kanuth), a dashing explorer, comes to visit and sample his friend Clive's family life and wife...
...operates," insists one Democratic Senator. "He's viewed as a lot of taking and not much giving. It's not that he's holier than thou, it's just that he has his own personal agenda." Says Bradley's media adviser, Michael Kaye: "He's everyone's friend but nobody's friend. He's so concerned about what he wants to accomplish that he hasn't joined the club...