Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absent, that the lack of actors and scripts translates to films that make themselves. Moreover, because of the twice-Oscared Kopple's towering reputation, Wild Man Blues bears the brand of a "vacation film"; as with Scorsese's Cape Fear or Coppola and Altman's recent Grisham adaptations, the idea of Kopple filming a celebrity bio sounds on paper like a hard-working master taking a crowd-pleasing breather...
...article appeared on these pages providing seniors with a list of "100 Things To Do Before You Graduate," and as the article suggests, many seniors are spending their final weeks here desperately trying to do all those things that they will never be able to do again. The idea is compelling and, for the more nostalgic among us, upsetting. But a closer look reveals that most of the things that seniors put on their lists of last chances aren't really their last chances after all. It is a little-known fact that a small fee will get you into...
...seemed to me that perhaps the tainted relationship between students and administration at Harvard thrives because of unequal information: We have little access to what occurs in University Hall, and the administration has no idea of the everyday life of its students. Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, former Undergraduate Council president and vice president, articulated this problem perfectly. Our interaction with the administration, she says, is one of "mutual suspicion and mistrust punctuated by occasional instances of mutual cooperation, communication and understanding...
...Well, I didn't think it was such a bad idea," Wayne said, sounding a bit miffed. "Nothing's perfect...
DIED. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, 62, former Black Panther firebrand and prophet of black empowerment; of undisclosed causes; in Pomona, Calif. While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return...