Word: piers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot, as the centaur says, is just deeds, and what gives this film its peculiar and forceful immediacy is the spirit in which these bizarre and seemingly unmotivated events are accepted. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini takes his story readymade, as he did earlier (1964) in the Gospel According to Saint Matthew. He makes no attempt to explain why such things came about, but merely how they must have happened--and how they appear to the participants, not to a modern audience. Taking Christ's life, he worked with Romans and peasants, shepherds and carpenters. With the story of Medea...
...Radcliffe class of '73 had one or more parents who attended the weekend. Although the weekend committee scheduled a wide variety of events, most groups spent a good deal of time on their own as well. Parents went scouting everywhere from the Hasty Pudding to Harvard Yard, from Pier Four to the Freedom Trail. They saw the rooms where we live, the classes we attend; some of the places we spend our lives. As my mother left she said, "Well I feel I know more about you now, not more about Harvard, but more about...
...Prince Philip and Princess Anne began their five-week tour of Southeast Asia with a five-day state visit to Thailand. Prince Philip -uniformed as an Admiral of the Fleet-commanded the royal launch as it left the royal yacht and swooshed up to Bangkok's royal pier, where the English royals were greeted by the Thai royals, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Then there was a ride in the royal Daimler through cheering throngs, a walk over a flower-strewn path and a presentation of the key to the city...
...lived for 20 years in Miami but is moving to avoid busing: "I have no intention of letting my daughter Bambi be bused away to a black or white school. I'd do anything to stop it." Complains Ronald Stroud, harbormaster at Fort Lauderdale's Pier 66: "Massive busing is a disgrace to this nation. It destroys neighborhoods." Agrees William Langer, president of Miami Electricians Local 349: "Busing is not the American way of life...
...shipped to Port Elizabeth, N.J., from Le Havre. She found 96 pounds of pure heroin secreted behind the fire wall of the bus. The bus's owner, Roger de Louette, had acted slightly nervous when filling out customs forms; he was arrested as he waited on the pier. De Louette claimed that he had been a spy with the SDECE. After being fired, he needed money badly, and accepted an offer to earn $60,000 for shipping the heroin. The man who set up the shipment, De Louette said, was one Colonel Paul Fournier, until recently the official...