Word: greying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine this. You are a senior at Currier House on your way to meet your new acting senior tutor. Expecting a grey-haired, bespectacled professor, you open the door--and find your ex-section leader from Chem 5. Don't laugh, it could happen...
Trim, in good shape, in his grey flannel suit, White hardly looked like the political boss that his ward-savvy rhetoric suggested. He said the politics of the Boston which he served were of an era gone...
Until they invented the counterculture, teenagers of the early '60s like Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) had to make do with just culture. So she gets three weeks with her family at a resort in the Catskills. Bo-o-o-ring! Baby's only hope is that Johnny (Patrick Swayze), the lower-class hunk who teaches dancing, may notice her. In a picture that never makes a move the audience has not anticipated two scenes back, wish soon becomes reality. Johnny initiates Baby first into his erotically charged (if anachronistic) dance style, then into the joys...
...Grey and Swayze are an attractive couple, and there is a good rush to Director Emile Ardolino's staging of the dance sequences. If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment...
Harsh, yes. But many see such treatment of hazardous AIDS carriers as justified. Explains Stanford Law Professor Thomas Grey: "It's the same as locking up someone who is going around stabbing people." Agrees Dr. David Cohn, a Denver public-health official: "When Patrick Henry said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' he wasn't talking about AIDS." Still, it is now clear that the more the disease spreads, the more the civil liberties of its victims are likely to suffer. Necessarily, public well-being takes precedence over individual rights, notes Larry Gostin, Harvard professor of health...