Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Report is a 45-minute manual on the grunt's first challenge: combatting boredom while he learns his job. War isn't hell, it's just a drag. In depicting men at work, at meals, at the meager forms of play available to them, the film seems relentlessly mundane. And so it is -if the viewer forgets that many of these youngsters, smiling or shivering or just hanging around, are marking time before an early, explosive death...
...family's involvement grew, as the two remaining children-William, 30, and Mary, 23-chauffeured witnesses and fetched documents. At center stage, their feisty father, using a Styrofoam model of the scene complete with toy cars, stressed numerous inconsistencies in the officers' testimony. He discredited the meager evidence that Bowden had been carrying a gun. He produced as a witness a reporter who, having ridden with the officers and listened to the episode while lying on the floor of their car, testified that there had been no warning shouts. Finally, he developed a strong case that Bowden could...
This might not be so obtrusive if Chicago's gifts as a formal artist were less meager. In drawing and modeling, The Dinner Party is mainly cliche. Most of the shapes look clumsy, either tied down by looping dark outlines that seem as inert as Alexander Calder's late graphics, or else gussied up, in the ceramics, with colors worthy of a Taiwanese souvenir factory. In terms of taste, The Dinner Party is no better than mass devotional...
...surprisingly, critics of the James family have ignored Alice's meager accomplishments, concentrating instead upon the lives and works of her famous and successful brothers. In Alice James: A Biography, however, Jean Strouse offers compelling reasons for focusing attention on the youngest member of the family. Working largely from James family letters and Alice's unpublished diary, Strouse beautifully reconstructs the life of a woman frustrated by the expectations of her father and the examples of her over-achieving siblings. Cut off from many of her brothers' opportunities because of her sex and age, Alice remained far too inhibited...
Many of the failures of student government at Harvard, however, are caused by structural problems. Student governments at all the Ivy League colleges face three problems: student apathy, meager funding, and lack of real power. But while other schools' student governments struggle with inadequate funding, the assembly has no funding at all. While other colleges have factions in their central councils, Harvard does not even have a central council: The assembly is not fully recognized by the University and has no formal powers. And while other colleges allow their student governments limited autonomy in a few areas, such as funding...