Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conscience may be inbred, but to grow it needs cultivation. The societal messages that make it through the din of inner-city rap 'n' roll conspire to stunt that growth. They all but drown out those voices trying to nurture a sense of responsibility, the foundation of moral character...
SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine Keeler with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John Profumo, Secretary of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This express tour through Swinging London plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll...
That may be changing. General Motors will roll out its $50,000 Corvette ZR1 in September, and the automotive trade press is already gushing about the car with the sort of enthusiasm it usually reserves for $150,000 European exotics. "We have finally driven the ZR1 Corvette," raves Automobile magazine. "And without equivocation we can pronounce it the fastest and finest high- performance automobile America has ever produced...
...result of the roll call vote on Resolution 7S-32 was read, I regained much of the confidence that I had lost following the earlier vote in favor of the ROTC resolution. That the Undergraduate Council had reconsidered the constitutionality of Resolution 7S-28 seemed the result of a week of reasoned debate. Democratic participation in the student representative process yielded an important endorsement of minority rights...
Scandal is an express tour of the Profumo affair that moves with a pop historian's revisionist swagger and plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll. Taking a cue from Asquith's Pygmalion, the film casts Ward (John Hurt) as an aristocratic makeover artist, discovering Keeler (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) in the fetid anonymity of a Soho strip club and turning her into a star of the jet-set slumming circuit. Pluck your eyebrows, Christine. Wet your lips. Come over and say hi to Jack Profumo...