Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Continuing their efforts to bring about minority hiring and academic reforms at the Law school, representatives of the minority student organization made a rare formal presentation of their positions at yesterday's faculty meeting...
Helms rode in the car behind Hitler in a motorcade through Nuremberg, where the frenzy spilled down every street. At the Burg, a medieval castle, Hitler came out on the battlement for one of his rare interviews. Helms was seized by conflicting emotions. He looked down on Hitler, who was smaller than Helms had thought. Hitler's handshake was firm. But his personality was not hypnotic. His eyes possessed no power, as the myths had it. Hitler's skin was coarse and his mustache slightly gray. His bottom teeth were goldplated, which made Helms suspect they were false...
Since then, the Faculty has met less and less frequently, tailing off from a once-a-month schedule to 1982's three-times-in-a-year regimen. The tempo will almost certainly not pick up much in 1983. It's not that the rare meetings since the Core debate haven't been magnificent; at back-to-back gatherings in early 1981, for example. Faculty members clashed vigorously over an affirmative action plan for Faculty hiring, and then over the proposed Race Relations Foundation. Discussion ranged from the history of discrimination in the United States to the meaning of meritocracy...
...subject obviously compels much of the film's allegorizing. Mohandas Gandhi was this century's most prominent saint. Saints, however, don't usually make for good movies at all--unless of course you happen to have one of those rare ones who appear in the midst of powerful human events. Joan of Arc was such a figure, as was Gandhi, the leader of one of history's greatest popular movements. The Gandhi Attenborough chose to depict is the Gandhi of popular memory: the holy man who shrewdly arrayed his moral power against a corrupt colonial regime. Attenborough ignores the Gandhi...
...script, which comes from a play of the same name, reeks of sexual innuendoes and satirical views of the modern-day world. The dialogue is one of those rare cinema bonuses--more than a screenplay, it clearly develops a plot, while gradually revealing a literary personality. The movements of the characters are poised and their facial expressions and actions resemble a stage production. The fluidity of the filming make their movements even more interesting and captivating: The camera focuses on their minute actions and their carefully enunciated jokes and tirades...