Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paulie, Roberts portrays a man who has never grown up to realize that thieves often get caught and that horses sired by champion studs don't always win races. But what Paulie has, that only his cousin seems to appreciate, is charm Robert's performance as Paulie is the highlight of the movie, he shows how a rather stupid person can also be imaginative and very funny. He preserveres through all his troubles because he doesn't know any other way of living. Rourke's Charlie sticks by Paulie because of a tribal instinct in which the strong stay...
...classicism of La Pittura Colta is a mere shell, and its vaunted erudition is as thin as a museum postcard. All it retains from the beaux-arts tradition is the desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among...
...several which helped to dramatize the fragility of a university's atmosphere of "free and uninhibited discussion" of issues. While the issues are distinct--ranging from expression in public forums on the one hand to restrictions on the publication of academic work on the other--they all highlight the frailty of free expression on campus...
...Marvin Appel '84, his thesis lab work on mouse leukemia cells was the highlight of his academic career at Harvard. "It makes you think and see science as it really is," he says of the hands-on experience. "Lectures tend to be reduced to more simplicity than it really is." Appel will enter the Medical School next year for a combined Ph.D./Md. program and intends to go into non-laboratory physiological research after graduation...
...social life, such as it was, equally unconventional. A highlight of my freshman year was going, with three of my brothers, to a dance at Paul Revere Hall in the Mechanics Building around New Years. What made this very different from the tea dances my classmates might attend at the Copley Plaza was that my brothers and I and a trumpet player named Max Eaminsky were the only white people in the crowd welcoming Louis Armstrong for his first Boston appearance...