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...Doda says coyly, "I agree with Einstein, who said time is kind of a relative thing." Perhaps, and as long as the famous silicon implants that swelled her bustline to 44 inches remain a permanent thing, she may be right. But the Broadway strip scene gets a little seedier every year, and even Doda admits that change is inevitable. Says she: "You gotta go with the flow or stay stuck...
Bridges must have spent a lot of time recently watching bad French movies. Every cliché of existential anomie - the aimless driving, the heavy smoking, the elliptical dialogue, the motel-room angst - has been imported to the seedier suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through...
...elude them: bad German, for instance, is an asset in Zurich; you can have a comical adventure asking for a train ticket to Senf, which means mustard, instead of Genf, which is Geneva.) Following the coast turned out to be a mistake, because its towns were filled with a seedier lot of tourists than Theroux would have met in castles and cathedrals...
Harvard first came under fire for its holdings in firms doing business in South Africa when the SDS in the late 1960s, charged that the University was involving itself in the seedier side of capitalism. But the SDS argued that the Harvard-South Africa connection was insignificant compared to other links Harvard had to institutionalized racism and oppression, including the U.S. military. After the SDS stormed University Hall in 1969, there was no mention of South Africa or Harvard's investment policies in the list of demands it released to the administration...
Harvard first came under fire for its holdings in firms doing business in South Africa when the SDS, in the late 1960s, charged that the University was involving itself in the seedier side of capitalism. But the SDS argued that the Harvard-South Africa connection was insignificant compared to other links Harvard had to institutionalized racism and oppression, including the U.S. military. After the SDS stormed University Hall in 1969, there was no mention of South Africa--or Harvard's investment policies--in the list of demands it released to the administration...