Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to admit it ... I went into the experience with my Cynic Ray set to stun. I had visions of Michael Jackson teaching HAL the computer to moonwalk, Coppola making a cameo appearance as Jabba the Hut belching 3-D jelly donuts, all to the tune of "Billy Jean," with brand new Eastman-Kodak lyrics...
PHOTO:Mihail S. Lari '89 of Eliot House and Karachi, Pakistan, Photography Chairman. Hector I. Osorio '89 of Winthrop House and Flushing, New York, Photography Chairman Jennifer Pitt '88 of Quincy House and Dobbs Ferry, New York Associate Photography Chairman. D. Jean Guth '88 of Lowel House and New York, New York, Associate Photography Chairman. Andrea L. Roberts '88 of Winthrop House and Newton Massachusetts, Assistant Photo Chairman...
...physicians ponder the issues raised by AIDS drug and vaccine testing, Dr. Jean Bernard, 79, chairman on medical ethics of France's Consultative Committee for Life Sciences and Health, urges them to take the long view. He reminds colleagues of the tremendous pressures 30 years ago to cut corners to get a polio vaccine. But, he notes, thousands of lives were saved when researchers took the time to get it right. "The point is," he sums up, "that you have to avoid passion. You must follow normal procedures...
Nicholas S. Daniloff '56 wrote his government honors thesis on "Political Obligation in the Thought of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus." In what was perhaps an existential forshadowing of his later capture and brief imprisonment by the KGB, he wrote in his thesis, "what makes their ideas relevant to the subject is that both of them intensely live, and write about a peculiar crisis, a crisis at once philisophical, ethical, and political...
Listen to these guys, and you may suspect that Platoon is not so much a movie as a Rorschach blot. But that is part of the caginess of Stone's approach. The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once wrote that when a good film is also a popular film, it is because of a misunderstanding. Platoon could very well be misunderstood into superhit status. The army of Rambomaniacs will love the picture because it delivers more bang for the buck; all those yellow folks blow up real good. Aging lefties can see the film as a demonstration...