Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrary to the saying, the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. Or so one man says. Anyway, your hour's up and it's time to go back to work on your thesis...
...isn't just a guy coming out of Harvard," says R. Victor Jones, Wallace professor of applied physics. "He's been in the legislature for eight years, and one might expect that someone coming out of academia wouldn't survive in the dog-eat-dog world of politics, but he's done very well...
...isn't worth it to rent control. I'm losing money," she says. "If we don't get an Independent majority on the City Council...If they don't reform [rent control] so that I get a fair rent, I'm going to have to sell...
Proponents of the proposal act as if the issue isn't rent control at all. "Support Choice--Support 1-2-3," read the signs. A flyer from a pro-1-2-3 group asked wrongly, "Did you know that home ownership is illegal in Cambridge?" These and other claims of the campaign have been deceptive...
Despite its customized carpeting of a soft-rock score, Immediate Family isn't exactly sentimental. It's a fond diagnosis of sentiment, which director Jonathan Kaplan (Heart Like a Wheel, The Accused) observes with his usual handsome care. Close and Woods, more familiar playing high-powered candidates for psychosis, are laser-precise as the Spectors. They work hard at appearing comfortable in roles without edges. But the Spectors, who set the film's agenda, cede sympathy to Lucy, as the well-to-do in movies inevitably do to the poor-but-spunky...