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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First came an extraordinary confidential letter from the top army commander to France's military leadership, leaked last week to Le Matin, a usually pro-government daily. Proposed cuts in defense spending by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government, wrote General Jean Delaunay, would eliminate more than 30,000 troops from the 314,000-man army, leading to a force "weakened in its structure, aging in its equipment and wounded in its morale." Then came other leaked statements by the air force and navy chiefs of staff, revealing what they said were still secret government studies of making major...
...Finkelman, writer and director, seems to specialize in sequels. His previous credits include Grease II; he had nothing to do with Airplane. Not credited as writers, although responsible for major revisions, are Mike Reiss '81 and Al Jean '81. No strangers to humor, these two, Reiss served as the Harvard Lampoon's president, and Al Jean was his Ibis, or second-in-command. Anyone who remembers Reiss's Ivy Oration in '81 will recognize the brand of rapid-fire humor that makes this spoof spunky, and Jean's specialty of "over-kill" humor fits perfectly into a film that...
...through these pages and not feel delight, wonder, surprise and that baser response to creative expression, the acquisitive itch. The examples range from the early photo realism of Eugene Durieu that imitates portrait painting to contemporary collage by Carel Balth that explores puzzling questions of perception. The text by Jean-Luc Daval, lecturer in art history at the University of Geneva, brings both the technique and the aesthetic of this dominant 20th century medium into sharp, tingling focus...
...Crimson played its usual strong game on defense, but also found itself over the free throw limit most of the game, and the Crusaders hit 63 percent of their charity points. Cindy Clapped the hoopsters, holding Holy Cross forward Jean Marie Buckley to half of her average 25 points...
Lowell did not return to Harvard. Instead he followed Ransom to Kenyon College, where he formed lasting friendships with Peter Taylor and Randall Jarrell. From that point onward, his life becomes a turbulent, often sensational tale. He married writer Jean Stafford; after a miserable six years they split. For the remainder of his days. Lowell fell in and out of love with various women--his 20-year marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick was stable only in its endurance...