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...Gordon C. Harvey, a preceptor who served as Acting Director of Expos while director Nancy Sommers was on leave this year, says Expos is designed to teach students how to write a college-level essay, complete with instruction in "the process of planning, drafting and revising that one needs to go through to write good essays...
After several of the burglars were arrested, G. Gordon Liddy--later indicted in the case--asked the attorney general to use his position to get the group out of jail...
...that's precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in Addicted to Love, and a fine--but not entirely uninteresting--mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Matthew Broderick's Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan's Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura...
...never easy being a spy in the house of love. It is certainly not as funny as Dunne and Gordon must have thought it could be. But the movie does find some grotesque comic traction when Maggie and Sam move from the passive to the active mode, their prime target being poor Anton. They plant evidence indicating that he's having an affair on the side. They ruin the restaurant he runs by bringing in a horde of cockroaches the night the New York Times food critic is dining there. They destroy his fallback career as a model by making...
Texas got the big news a little late. On June 19, 1865--nearly a month after the Civil War ended and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation--General Gordon Granger of the Union Army landed at Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3: "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free...