Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently neither Stallone nor anyone else who worked on this picture could bear to part with the lumpish likability that all tried so hard to establish at the beginning. In the end they sacrifice everything-insight, morality, a dramatic arc-to preserve intact their star's only known quality, best described as a sort of vulgar affability...
...First, it is an entirely unnecessary movie. Howard Hawks adapted Raymond Chandler's classic detective story 30-odd years ago and he did it right: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall played the leading roles and Chandler's essential mood, at once cynical, gloomy and absurdist, remained intact. As that film is available on TV and in memory's theater, there is no reason to try to duplicate it. There is absolutely no reason to rip Chandler's immortal gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, from his natural milieu, Los Angeles in its corrupt years as an emerging metropolis...
...Faculty will approve the Core. Except for a greater emphasis on history (the result of some still mysterious political maneuverings in the Faculty Council last spring by Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History), the original task force proposal has come through the grist mill of Faculty committees relatively intact. And the recent inclusion of various by-pass options into the legislation has subdued the fears of Faculty members who thought the requirements might be too restrictive. Thus, it appears as if Rosovsky's meticulously promoted Core Curriculum will be voted in--if not at this afternoon's Faculty meeting (which...
Last week's action should boost the Core Curriculum's chances of passing almost completely intact. Although CUE's and Faculty Council's rejection of the major amendments is not binding, it will probably diminish greatly the odds that Faculty members will take those amendments seriously at next week's Faculty meeting...
...year of up to 50 per cent of their loans while extending the time in which an alumnus must repay the remainder, is only a first step. While it does free students somewhat to select a career in a low-income field, the proposal leaves major barriers intact. Even with the "forgiveness" policy, a graduate could owe the Law School $7000-$8000--more than half the yearly income of those for whom the proposal is designed...