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...became more dubious. In recent years such courses as "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" found their way into the Gen Ed listings -- while of undoubted intellectual merit (at least usually), they didn't quite seem designed to produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate the needs of specific clienteles: the Natural Science coruse, for instance, that would approach scientific issues from a philosophical or political perspective, or the Humanities course custom-built for the pocket-calculator, pre-med set. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman...
...empty cans as souvenirs. The beer has done a brisk business at $1 per can, but the empties, at the same price, have done even better, thanks to ads placed in two magazines published for beer-can collectors. The demand proved so great that a tiny black market sprang up, with empty beer cans changing hands at $5 each. "There were lots of folks who just drove into town, bought a couple cans full of air and drove right back out," said Allen Kruger, Chairman for Grafton's Centennial Celebration. Now that the empty cans are almost gone, Grafton...
...posters that sprang up across Britain last week showed long lines at an unemployment office and carried a stinging message: LABOUR ISN'T WORKING. The posters drew howls from ruling Labor Party benches in the House of Commons-thereby letting the opposition Conservatives know they had struck a raw nerve or two. The Tories had fired the first salvo in an undeclared campaign for the election that Prime Minister James Callaghan is expected to call some time in the autumn...
...sleeping bags. Bodies were everywhere-standing, sitting, lying on the floor. The wait for toilets was 20 minutes and for a cup of tea, half an hour. The gift shop sold out of men's disposable underwear; deodorant and razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto a covered area near the parking lot. Groused Pat Shaw, a waitress from Buffalo: "I've slept on concrete for three days, and the big moral question facing me at night is whether to sleep...
...places like the high school lawn. Chorus members are not even given attitudes they can maintain when they are in the background of a shot. Camera work is film school simple, and movement within shots does not even reach the levels we are accustomed to in TV, whence Kleiser sprang or, more properly, stumbled. Even the lip-sync in the musical numbers is terrible...