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...again" pleasure it is going to give audiences, though that, of course, is its most basic virtue. In a troubled time for the American movie, a time of runaway costs, indifferent craftsmanship and stiffening competition from new entertainment technologies, Raiders is, in fact, an exemplary film, an object lesson in how to blend the art of storytelling with the highest levels of technical know-how, planning, cost control and commercial acumen. Most of its relatively low, $20 million budget (half what Michael Cimino was permitted to squander on his out-of-control flop, Heaven's Gate) is, as they...
Beyond its intrinsic value as the ultimate object of religious veneration, the ark is believed to be capable of conferring mystical power on its worldly possessor; legend has it that an army with the ark in its van is invincible-hence the scramble between Nazis and Yanks...
...same time, Harvard knew it would not be able to do what it pleased with the land. The outcry over past expansion made the University an immediate object of suspicion, and neighbors in Harvard Square had proved their tenacity by delaying the 1B development for years in a series of suits. And so, Harvard announced as soon as it purchased the property that the neighbors would be involved in planning for the site. Regular meetings followed, as community representatives--including Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55--were shown Graduate School of Design models for the property. A preliminary design, announced...
Photo talks about her sense of pride in the House in quiet terms, but most of the time she is irrepressible, living proof of the Newtonian principle that an object in motion tends to remain in motion. She flits around the dining hall, chatting with several groups in the course of a meal, getting ready to go out or do something. "I've tried Model U.N., the Institute of Politics, the Legal Aid Bureau, ectutoring," she explains. "I'm always doing odds and ends--it's better than studying...
October 7--Fifty students prevent the Adams House Film Society from showing D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," saying that they object to the film's treatment of the Ku Klux Klan...