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...results didn't satisfy anyone. Network anchors obsessed constantly about the "tightly scripted" event they were forced to endure. Ted Koppel and the Nightline crew got so frustrated they left town. Republican officials grumbled that their TV extravaganza was getting short shrift from the network cameras. (Showcased speakers such as Gerald Ford and Christine Todd Whitman were largely ignored.) Ratings, meanwhile, were catastrophically bad: the combined three-network audience fell 25% from four years ago; just over 12% of the nation's TV homes tuned...
...story as a whole is pretty similar to Angelo's journeys: both are given a certain amount of momentum by chases, deaths, fights with mobs and soldiers, but remain essentially aimless, lacking in direction and overarching purpose. Emotional and psychological themes are also, for the most part, given short shrift; threads are taken up for awhile that eventually go nowhere. There is a childhood friend who betrays Angelo to the Austrians, but if this is meant to be a poignant disillusionment, it's too halfhearted to strike any chords. Angelo and Pauline are each haunted by outside characters--his mother...
...course, keeping tuition rates low means cutting back somewhere else, just as reducing section size (as Knowles would like to do) would mean something else would get short shrift. Although we know times are hard, we wish donors would give restricted funds to Harvard not only for students' scholarships, which are critical, but for smaller sections. The benefits in good teaching, especially in Core classes, would be immeasurable...
...maybe--most likely--many Harvard students simply haven't been exposed to these movies. Foreign films, classics and art films all too often are shoved in video store corners or given short shrift on popular movie house screens...
...have to wonder why education is getting such short shrift in our society today. As an investment, its potential for economic growth is unmatched. A college education has become an absolute necessity in the job market; why would the Congress try to lower the competence level of working Americans...