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...released Star Wars movies on the big screen are not the changes that the filmmakers have made but the quality that the size and sound of the film take on in a large theatre. There's also the simple feeling of being there, of commemorating a landmark event in the change (for better or worse) of the motion picture industry from the director-driven, art-oriented days of the early seventies to the big-budget, star-vehicle, action-adventure, special-effects nineties. A country of 260 million people has few pieces of shared experience, and it is somehow comforting...
...often that a historical landmark literally vibrates with youthful energy. The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, built in 1903, functions today as a bustling social service agency meeting the community's needs via a food pantry, childcare center and afterschool program...
Schauer based his criticism on the historical precedent of free speech cases in the United States, arguing that the film left viewers with the false impression that Falwell vs. Hustler was a landmark decision in the American legal battle over free speech...
...recent concern about infants and toddlers has been inspired in part by Starting Points, a landmark report published by the Carnegie Corporation in 1994, which identified a "quiet crisis" in the lives of the youngest children. Hillary Clinton has begun to speak out on the importance of a child's earliest years, and several Governors have forcefully taken up the issue. The size of the programs in place is quite modest. But to their advocates they hold out promise not only of helping children fulfill their potential but also of saving society the costs ncurred when intellectually and socially impaired...
...imports, London seems to be infatuated with Americans. Transplants from Broadway like Grease, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor are side by side on the West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. The Royal National Theatre has just revived Richard Eyre's landmark 1982 production of Guys and Dolls, whose success inspired a string of British revivals of classic American musicals. Even so unfashionable, and quintessentially American, a pop figure as Al Jolson has gained new life on the West End: Jolson, a musical tribute to the 1920s star, has been running more...