Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leverett House heat vents last year. Of course the St. Paul's lot is still just a lot. Harvard's plan to build mixed-income housing is still just a plan. But at a time when Harvard has trouble housing its own students and faculty, the University does seem to have had a change of heart...
...film does not glamourize or trivialize death with grotesque special effects. But it jolts the viewer alive to the sensuousness of danger, fear and war lust. All senses must be alert when your life is at stake, and Oliver Stone is an artist-showman who can make movies seem a matter of life and death...
...shoulder its way toward the front rank of Oscar favorites. By now it would have to be counted as the front runner, and Hollywood is furrowing its back with self-congratulatory pats for making this big bold message movie. To Stone, Hollywood's claim of paternity for Platoon must seem a rich joke. He and Hollywood both know that Platoon -- like The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Boys in Company C, The Killing Fields and nearly all the serious movies about the war in Southeast Asia -- secured its major financing from foreign producers. "It was a picture we wanted...
...Reagan revolution, pronounced the prospective agenda "boring, boring, boring." The President just listened politely, and nothing new emerged. Partly it is a matter of selective engagement: Reagan enjoyed meeting last November with a group of futurists who discussed their vision of the 21st century, but he does not seem bothered by not having had a director of policy planning since last September...
...action was the latest setback for Khashoggi, a key middleman in U.S. arms sales to Iran. French police confiscated his DC-9 aircraft earlier this month. The arms dealer's growing financial woes, which stem in part from the failure of grandiose real estate and development schemes, seem certain to cause further cutbacks in a sybaritic life-style that once earned Khashoggi a reputation as the world's richest...