Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film casts Ward (John Hurt) as an aristocratic makeover artist, discovering Keeler (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) in the fetid anonymity of a Soho strip club and turning her into a star of the jet-set slumming circuit. Pluck your eyebrows, Christine. Wet your lips. Come over and say hi to Jack Profumo...
...likes being liked. His sin is in assuming, like nearly everyone who jestered near the thrones of power in Britain and America, that the games could be pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap opera. Then Christine snitches to the press, and domestic melodrama stokes national tragedy...
...parking lots and playgrounds. They commandeer vacant apartments. In some cities they have become occupying armies, besieging entire housing complexes. They are the drug dealers who have terrorized public- housing projects since the birth of the crack-cocaine trade. Last week Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp announced sweeping plans to drive drug dealers out of public housing. But in his zeal to attack the drug crisis, Kemp may have ignored serious questions of practicality, if not constitutionality...
Harvard is heavily favored, fielding one of its strongest crews in the last few years. Rowing for the Crimson, from bow-to-stern, are Captain and bow Joe Harvey, senior Curt Piecken-haugen, junior Peter Sharis, sophomore Hugh Evans, junior Jon Bernstein, senior Jack Rusher, senior Phil Schuller, stroke and senior John Amory and sophomore Metz...
...glimpse of the pre-season potential that Coach Jack Hopkins had hoped would surface earlier sparked Harvard to its best finish of the season...