Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question were one of diversity versus student choice, we would have to debate the relative merits of the two goals. But the debate is not about goals; it is about policies. As a policy, the present system is the best because it actualizes both goals, as opposed to randomization which disregards student choice for only a minimal increase in diversity...
Although there are several characters in the show, Jeeves, or Wooster, is always the narrator. The humor that Duke uses in portraying them is definitely the glue that keeps this show together. Both Jeeves'--and Wooster's--running commentary on the present action keeps the audience roaring...
Immediate Family reminds viewers that serious actors do not have to be type-cast. Before realizing Close once played Big Chill-type roles, audience members expect her to be holding a knife instead of a birthday present in her lap at the movie's start. And where is the whiskey-swigging adventurer Woods plays in Salvador...
...pictures made by photojournalists have the legitimacy of being news, fresh information. They slice along the hard edge of the present. Photojournalism is not self-conscious, since it first enters the room (the brain) as a battle report from the far-flung Now. It is only later that the artifacts of photojournalism sink into the textures of the civilization and tincture its memory: Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, an image so raw and shocking, subsides at last into the ecology of memory where we also find thousands of other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral...
...somewhat marred by the claims of a French researcher, Dr. Dominique Stehelin, that he deserved at least part of the prize. Stehelin, who assisted in the UCSF study but is now at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, called his omission "very unfair and rotten." But others who were present at the time of the original experiments said that Stehelin, though a key member of the research team, nevertheless worked under the supervision of Varmus and Bishop. The Nobel Committee stood by its decision...