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musical direction by Jefferson Packer...
...Medal of Liberty Awardfrom President Reagan at ceremonies marking therekindling of the Statue of Liberty's lamp in1986. In 1991, she received the Presidential Medalof Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award,from President Bush. She received the CharlesFrankel Prize from the National Endowment for theHumanities and the Jefferson Medal from theAmerican Philosophical Society...
...income students, who may be just as smart as any Harvard student but simply cannot afford $28,000 a year. Given this, student loans, by enabling many more students to attend college to gain the skills needed in today's job market, increase the nation's economic competitiveness. Thomas Jefferson said a democracy cannot remain a democracy if its voting citizens aren't educated. Thus, 200 years ago public schooling was initiated. Fifty years ago, to survive economically, all someone needed was a high school education. But that was when blue collar, manufacturing jobs were prevalent...
...Thursday, April 20. "FunnyBones" at 1:15, 4:30 and 9:50 p.m. "Rob Roy" at12:45, 4:15, 7:25 and 10:15 p.m. "Farinelli" at1:45, 5, 7:45 and 10:25 p.m. "Circle of Friends"at 1:30, 4, 6:45 and 9:35 p.m. "Jefferson inParis...
There is plenty of material here for a gripping story about a man whose habits of life and belief are being challenged in all sorts of ways. But essentially the movie settles for pretty pictures. The love stories are presented with gingerly discretion. Jefferson's affair with Maria is all arch, twittering banter in an antique style; nothing in it elevates their pulses (or the audience's). Hemings is presented as a wise, if untutored, child, more of a nursemaid to Jefferson than a believably sexual being. It's hard to see what he saw in either of them...