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...signals on college campuses." Ironically, a return to heavier social drinking could come about because of the change in attitudes and laws. "If the temperance people succeed in curbing alcoholism and alcohol abuse," says Room, "the problem will pretty much disappear, and people won't remember what all the fuss was about." Such a swing, he says, could come in as little as 20 years...
...example after vivid example, and his careful depiction of the human effects of apartheid is the real contribution of his recently released book, Freedom Rising. Amid the campus and national debate about the ethics of divestment vs. engagement vs. apathy, Swanson provides a reminder of just what the fuss is all about...
...less amusing is Lawrence as Cressida's tenderhearted uncle Pandarus. Decked out in bright yellow and peacock green, Lawrence looks a little like a wayward hairdresser from Soho. Twittering about to arrange a meeting between his niece and her enamorata. Pandarus is the quintessmal old fuss budget. While Ulysses gets the most elegant lines in the piece Pandarus gets enough good comic material to read for the role of a Green Johnny Carson. Blunt to the point of abrasiveness. Pandarus urges the lovers to abandon useless talk and move into more substantial endeavors once they have made each other...
...plan to cause enough fuss this spring to bring this issue back unto the national press agenda," says Damon A. Silvers '86, member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC). "The spring of '85 is going to see the campus divestment movement going into full-court press," adds Michael T. Anderson '83-84, a member of Harvard Law School's divestment committee and a founder of the Endowment for Divestiture...
...church, Jean-Luc Godard's new movie, Hail Mary, is naturally packing in scandal-loving French moviegoers. Since it opened last month, the film has been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck...