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...after a scandal of the proportions of Contragate, Presidential advisers would form a queue out the door and Reagan himself would be strongly considering following suit. Yet this crisis, a quintessential political scandal complete with upstart underlings and clued-out Cabinet members has somehow been successfully extricated from the realm of politics. This is wrong...
Cohen said Aloian came as close to the ideals of a gentleman "as any man I have known." Cohen also cited Aloian's accomplishments as a teacher, stressing that he often went beyond the realm of the formal instructor. Aloian inspired the desire to follow "a life of service and learning" in all those who came into contact with him, Cohen added...
...realm of genre moviemaking here. But nobody does that with greater conviction, energy and unpatron-izing affection for the grand old forms than Eastwood. He also knows that by grounding his work with a few simple ironies, he can humanize his basic screen character, that of the dutiful loner, and separate it from upstarts like "Sly" Stallone and Chuck Norris. The sergeant's swearing, for example, is well beyond the grunting demands of realism; it is an aria of obscenities and more a commentary on macho posturing than an assertion of it. Same thing with the women's magazines...
What happens in theater happens right there. It is not a record of past actions but an ongoing phenomenon which at its best will grab the audience and make them live it as well. A movie deals in what has already happened. The theater's realm is potential: what may happen, to the story, to the actors, to you. Properly used, the physical proximity of play and playgoer can be exploited to create heights of humor and terror, tension and relief, of which no other medium is capable. Theater is dangerous. That is its strength...
Harvard Medical School itself witnessed a major case of fraud less than four years ago, when John R. Darsee admitted to a series of fraudulent published research findings on heart disease. The line between the pure realm of academic research and the "pressures" of profit and personal gain has perhaps never before been tested as it is now in this era of high-profile science--an era that has witnessed the rapid commercializing of biomedicine...