Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others say they think society is more apt to listen to these groups today. "I think that young people today feel as if they can make a difference. We're in a position where society takes us seriously," says Zoher Ghogawala '87, president of the Cynthia Stanton Memorial Cancer Council...
...effort to organize themselves into a state-wide network, an expected 150 budding politicos from 25 Massachusetts colleges paid $5 yesterday to meet one another and listen to political pundits...
There is enough space to put in rooms where bands could play to anyone who wanted to listen, lounges for VCR movies, or just places for people to see and be seen. The building would also be a great place to display student...
...reversals that continue to mark their country's political life, profess scant interest in matters of state. "These things don't concern me," said a taxi driver in Tiananmen Square, where red banners flew in honor of the People's Congress. Concurred a septuagenarian scholar: "I really don't listen to this sort of thing any more." And a Peking intellectual added his own apolitical perspective: "My friends and I just gather together to eat and drink and make up jokes...
...Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson has found the perfect cast for this comic elegy; each actor's face is a subtle caricature of ordinary futility. In fact, most of the movie is pretty funny, if you can convince yourself that these people...