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...personal level, he was extremely warm andhelpful to his students, invited us to his homeoften, but on an associative level he reallyagonized over the plight of his students'employment," Brinkley said...
HOLLYWOOD, THAT HOTBED OF LIBERALISM, HAS VOICED PLENty of humane sentiment over the plight of inner-city Los Angeles residents since last year's riots. But at least three major studios -- Disney, Universal and Fox -- do not recognize MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY. Says a spokesman for MCA, the parent company of Universal: "This corporation has made the decision that Martin Luther King Day is not a holiday...
...urgency of the situation was underscored by the mounting impact of an icy Balkan winter. No single incident so cruelly epitomized the plight of noncombatants as the discovery by U.N. refugee workers of the bodies of 12 residents of an unheated nursing home for the elderly in Sarajevo, all of whom had succumbed to the cold within two days. U.N. refugee official Jose-Maria Mendeluce warned that barring "drastic" progress in Geneva, "many people here will not survive this winter...
...Life is a melancholy progression: "Kindergarten. School. University. Black hole." In its bantering way, the movie is ambitious to a fault. When it isn't addressing the lapsing of marital love or the exhausting of extramarital lust, it's got dead babies on its mind, and AIDS, and the plight of friends who would be the lovers of friends who'd just as soon...
First Figgie describes a week from hell in 1995. He focuses on the plight of the fictional Betsy and Tom Roth, God-fearing, hard-working folks with two kids and a couple of grandparents to feed, who suddenly find themselves belly up. Among the things that happen to Betsy and Tom in the course of just seven days: they lose their jobs, their daughter's college is closed, their credit cards are canceled, their bank fails, their food costs soar, their son is seriously injured when a poorly maintained bridge collapses and the car he's in plunges into...