Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard next week while countless others with scores in the supersonic 700s will be turned away. The admissions committee obviously considers academic credentials and extracurricular activities, but beyond these lie even more subtle elements of the process including intangibles such as the applicant's personal qualities, Harvard's relationship with particular high schools, and the University's assessment of what type of student "fits in" at Harvard...
Basch and Genovese, professors of history at the University of Rochester, discussed the roles of the Marxist intellectual as critic and activist and the relationship of social sciences and Marxism...
Vance is worried that détente between Moscow and Washington has been strained to the breaking point. He has warned President Carter that the dialogue between the superpowers is deteriorating into mutual recriminations. What the relationship needs now, Vance believes, is more cool-headed diplomacy and less scolding rhetoric. Brzezinski, by contrast, favors a more competitive approach. He feels that the Soviets are acting and talking tough and that Washington should respond in kind...
...built around an exciting idea. Malle and Scenarist Polly Platt have hypothesized a romance-and eventual marriage-between Heroine Violet (Brooke Shields) and E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine), the legendary photographer of Storyville's glory days. This couple's bizarre March-December affair, like the equally promising relationship between Violet and her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon), is described only intermittently. Instead of coming to terms with the characters' emotions, Malle dithers away his movie on rowdy sequences that depict the upstairs-downstairs antics of his oldtime sporting-house setting. Despite Sven Nykvist's fine cinematography...
...spare the rod" philosophy of rearing is literally taken by the father of the future writer Gavio Ledda (Saverio Marconi). Mario Masini's cinematography especially shines in filming the lush greens and radiant ambers of a sunlit Sardinian landscape. But most importantly, few movies have ever probed the bitter relationship of an intractable patriarch and his eldest son more sensitively and his unflinchingly than the quasi-literary "Padre, Padrone...