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Among the good ones: interest in the subject matter, interest in going to law school and interest in taking a "lighter, less technical" economics class...
...intensity of infrared radiation is a measure of an object's temperature; when the heat picture sent back from space was blue-masked through the computer, it could thus be made visible, with cold features like clouds and warmer features like land appearing lighter or darker. This last image was then combined with the others, producing a full spectrum of colors...
LITTLE ROCK: A day after former Governor Jim Guy Tucker received a lighter-than-expected sentence because of his illness, U.S. District Judge George Howard had much less sympathy for Susan McDougal. Howard sentenced the former Clinton business partner to two years in jail for misusing a $300,000 loan obtained in the name of her Master Marketing advertising company from a lender backed by the Small Business Administration. "The judge was obviously more sympathetic to Tucker than to Susan McDougal, which seems a bit unusual," says TIME's Jef McAllister. "One would think that a sitting governor would...
...comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
Totalitarian tackiness extends to every aspect of this lighter-than-air film. The plot is lovingly predictable. Sixteen year old Genvieve (Catherine Deneuve) is leered at by almost every male in the village of Cherbourg where she works in her mother's umbrella store. She falls for the earnestly handsome automechanic Guy(Nino Castelnuovo) who ruins everything by being drafted. Before leaving for Algeria, he somewhat deviously impregnates her, perhaps to be sure she'll 'wait for him'. But his plan backfires when the pregnant, helpless Genvieve is married off to the rich, wolf-like diomand dealer Roland Cassard (Marc...