Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been here before; on grade school field trips to the Museum of Science and Industry, to visit Northwestern in my senior year in high school, to spend a week in the downtown YMCA during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, and now a year later for the opening of the Chicago conspiracy trial and the Weatherman Days of Rage. "Nobody in that courtroom was the same person he had been thirteen months before. Nobody had the same intentions," Tony Lukas writes in his new book Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Certainly not myself, who with a voyeuristic journalistic curiosity...
Chamberlain was not to the Shakespearean canon born. He grew up in Beverly Hills and, out of "sheer uncooperativeness," did not learn to read until the fourth grade. He eventually managed a B.A. from Pomona College, and, after some acting lessons, landed an MGM contract. The studio gave him the Kildare part after passing over 35 others (including Lew Ayres, who created the role in films). It did not, however, make an actor out of him, as Sir Cedric Hardwicke once told Chamberlain. "You're doing it all backwards. You're a star...
...years ago we were in grade school. But even without us, there was a Harvard. Nathan Pusey was already here, and Mac Bundy was still here, and the Loeb was here-though just opening-and even Lamont was here, as you will see below...
...regret to inform you that your front page article, "Stuff of Life..." fails to achieve a passing grade. Your reporter neither did his homework nor understood what I told him over the phone on Sunday. First as to homework, your reporter had access to Walter Sullivan's article in the N.Y. Times of Nov. 6, and he mentioned having seen it. Even a casual reading of this article would have avoided must of the errors. Secondly, a press release on formic acid dated Nov. 6 was on the AP and UP wires. Finally, an I.A.U. Circular was issued last week...
Despite some genuinely inventive work with a one-way mirror, the last half of the film is grade Z gothic explicitly and ludicrously prefaced by a shot of Nero reading Poe. The story defines a specific supernatural cause-a young nymphomaniac (Italian gothic being more open than the American kind) dead these thirty years-for the hero's obsessions and the events that keep animating the house. Instead of taking quantities of diverse experiences, and showing us the ways we process this material and the ways it obsesses us, the film turns its cultural matter to sensationalist ends, and obstructs...