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...help students make sense of the thick Nutrition Bites binder and make healthy meal choices, strolling nutritionist Shirley S. Hung, a student at the School of Public Health, visits dining halls Thursday and Friday evenings. Her job is to provide students with nutritional counseling and help them formulate a healthy, well-balanced diet, Hung says...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
This peculiarity of the British sense of humour is important to keep in mind when viewing "High Hopes." Otherwise Mike Leigh's sketch of the state of class warfare in London might become unbearably bleak. The film centers on Cyril and Shirley, a couple who live in a high-rise block, work as motorcycle couriers and are haunted by Cyril's dogged refusal to start a family. Although Leigh is sympathetic to Shirley's need for a child, the family portraits he draws would be enough to put anyone...
...particularly poignant moment occurs duringa scene in which Cyril and Shirley have taken atrip up to Highgate cemetry to visit the grave ofKarl Marx. Cyril starts lamenting the erosion ofindividual freedom, anticipating that "by the year2000 there'll be 36 television stations 24 hours aday, telling you what to think." At this veryinstant the couple are engulfed by a crowd ofstereotyped Japanese tourists, chattering andsnapping away furiously at Marx's statue withtheir telephoto lenses. The sequence provides acommentary on the futility of protest in a worldof mass production and mass-communication. TheBritish don't like change, but somehow we willeventually...
...notBritish. But Leigh somehow manages to steer clearof unmitigated pessimism. There are some greatone-liners, for example Vivien's classic blunder:"I would like to propose a toast to mum's birthday'cos it may be her last." There is also, inCyril's enduring idealism and his tenderness forboth Shirley and his mother, a reminder of theimportance of maintaining "high hopes...