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Both race and class became big issues, however, during Lott's years at Ole Miss, which had no black students when he arrived in 1959. There the student yearbook invoked the charms of "darkies singing softly in the moonlight" along the levee. Social life and student politics were dominated by the big fraternities and sororities, where Lott encountered sons and daughters of Delta planters who looked down not only on blacks but also on members of the smaller Greek organizations and the "independent" students who either couldn't get accepted into a fraternity or sorority or couldn't afford...
...voice over thousands of songs and half a dozen generations, cutting everyone in on the wonder. There was something about her voice that glistened, that refracted off an up-tempo number like a sudden shot of sun or shone off a ballad like a sideling beam of moonlight...
...Senior Week brochures, students have already had to ante up for caps and gowns. Once the HAA's brochure makes it into seniors' hands, the further costs of joining one's fellow students in jubilation become manifest: $4 for a senior film and slide show; $12 for a moonlight cruise; $15 for the "Last Chance" dance; $35 for the Class Day Clambake; $10 for the Radcliffe Alumni Association luncheon...
...Acting is much, much, much easier than music," says JON BON JOVI. He may be speaking prematurely. (He's only just started his second movie.) But, for now, films--and some music--are what Bon Jovi wants to make. After getting gentle reviews for his role in Moonlight and Valentino, he is playing the leading man, a big Hollywood star, in The Leading Man. "It's a stretch," insists Bon Jovi, who has been taking acting classes for five years. "The guy's such a chameleon." He plans to fit more movies around his music tours, but Sly Stallone...
...marine, Bickle has found himself stricken with insomnia, and, in the movie's opening scene, decides to undertake driving the moonlight shift on a taxi cab simply as a way of filling up the time. Increasingly fed up with the sordid people he encounters in his midnight runs--prostitutes, pimps, pushers and various basket cases--he begins a strict physical and mental regimen in pursuit of some goal at which we can only guess. After an innocent attempt to woo a senator's aide (Cybill Shepherd) and to rescue a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) from the streets, Travis resorts...