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...first in a bunch of Gumpthings hoping to replicate that film's $285 million success story. But on a smaller scale, The War is a bigger movie and, for all its weepy trappings, a more adventurous one. It hints that it will be a familiar, Stand by Me-ish rite-of-passage picture; then it explodes into a kid's version of Apocalypse...
...regards the recommendations of the report, I understand them..to be as follows," Johnson wrote in a memo dated September 8. "1) That the Executive Director of Brooks House, the Director of the Stride Rite Community Service Program, and the College Director of the Office of Public Service Programs be laid off; 2) that an extensive search be made for a new Assistant Dean/Director of Phillips Brooks House; 3) that the Brooks House staff be immediately accesible to 700 additional students thus increasing their work load by a numerical minimum of 44 percent; and 4) that President Rudenstine be asked...
...foregrounds and deranged angles -- above all, its strange new mood of cool melancholy -- were met with shock at the time. The reception it got from critics -- "warped" and "joyless" were two of the milder descriptions -- is photography's own version of the opening- night riot that greeted Stravinsky's Rite of Spring...
Thus the question becomes not whether to apply, but when and for what. All fellowships are not created equal. A Rockefeller can beat a Rotary but not a Fulbright, while a Truman trumps a Stride-Rite with ease...
Johnson is the executive director of PHB and the director of the Stride Rite Community Service Program...